释义 |
stockfish \ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun Etymology: Middle English stokfish, from Middle Dutch stocvisch, from stoc stick, stump, trunk of a tree + visch fish; probably from its having been dried on wooden racks; akin to Old High German fisc fish — more at stock, fish 1. a. : fish (as cod, haddock, hake, or ling) dried hard in the open air without salt b. : something held to resemble stockfish in being thoroughly beaten and flattened out < as dead as a stockfish — George Meredith > < sat mute as a stockfish — Charles Dickens > 2. also stok·vis \ˈstäkˌfis\ [Afrikaans stokvis, from Middle Dutch stocvisch] : a hake (Merluccius capensis) that is the basis of the leading commercial fishery of southern Africa |