单词 | tommy cod |
释义 | tommy codn. Canadian. The tomcod or frostfish, Microgadus tomcod; = tomcod n. 1a. ΚΠ 1789 T. Cary Abram's Plains 9 The autumn smelt..the winter tomi-cod. 1808 H. Gray Lett. from Canada (1809) xviii. 267 The Canadians call them petite Morue; the English call them Tommy cod. 1878 J. Burroughs in Scribner's Monthly Feb. 589/1 From Rivière du Loup, where we passed the night and ate our first ‘Tommy-cods’. 1991 A. Cameron Kick the Can ii. 38 At first she fished off the float, but all you really got there was rock cod or tommy cod or flounder. 2012 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 11 Feb. h6 He said having the right bait to catch fish such as smelt and tommy cod is also important. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1789 |
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