fishet

English

Etymology

From fish +‎ -et.

Noun

fishet (plural fishets)

  1. (rare, archaic) A young or small fish.
    Synonyms: fishling, fishlet
    • 1867 August 24, “Town Talk”, in Fun, volume the fifth (new series), London: […] J. Alder, →OCLC, page 248, column 1:
      When they remembered how they came to be partakers of the banquet last year, they must have felt very unsafe until the little crisp fishets were crunched between their teeth.
    • 1874, Thomas Hood, Whims and Oddities: In Prose and Verse, page 107:
      […] fishets that come through the pump, every morning, thick as motelings […]

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