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Ask "How's the sole today?" in France and be told the fish is delicious; inquire in Italy and be informed the sun has been shining since dawn.

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  1. noun Any of numerous cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates of the superclass Pisces, characteristically having fins, gills, and a streamlined body and including specifically:
  2. noun Any of the class Osteichthyes, having a bony skeleton.
  3. noun Any of the class Chondrichthyes, having a cartilaginous skeleton and including the sharks, rays, and skates.
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  • Ask "How's the sole today?" in France and be told the fish is delicious; inquire in Italy and be informed the sun has been shining since dawn. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
  • So, in the land where, as someone has said, one man's fish is another man's poisson, the French make similar errors when venturing into English. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
  • We were all astonished by the appearance of the apartment into which he invited us. —  The Sign Of The Four
  • It isn't good form to say "That fish is a Sparidae"; if you want to use the whole family name, it has to be in a construction like "Look! —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3
  • "You are both very kind," she answered. —  The Sign Of The Four
 

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anchovy · barracuda · bass · bichir · bleak · bloater · bonito · bream · bullhead · carp · catfish · coalfish · cod · crappie · dogfish · eel

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English fisc.

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  1. from Middle English fisch, fissh, fiss, fisc, from Anglo-Saxon fisc (plural fiscas, sometimes transposed fixas) = Old Saxon fisk = OFries. fisk = Dutch visch = Old High German fisc, Middle High German visch, German fisch = Icelandic fiskr = Swedish Danish fisk = Gothic (Moesogothic) fisks = Welsh pysg = Irish and Gaelic iasg, Old Irish iasc (with reg. apheresis of p) = Latin piscis (later Italian pesce = Spanish pez = Portuguese peixe = Provencal pesc = Old French peis, also (diminutive) peisson, poisson, French poisson), fish.
  2. from Middle English fischen, fisshen, fissen, from Anglo-Saxon fiscian = Old Saxon fiskōn = OFries. fiskia = Dutch visschen = Middle Low German vischen = Old High German fiscōn, Middle High German vischen, German fischen = Icelandic fiskja = Swedish fiska = Danish fiske = Goth, fiskōn, fish; = Latin piscari, fish; from the noun.
  3. from French fiche, a peg, pin, dibble, a peg used in marking at cribbage, etc., a fish, from ficher, drive in, pin up, fix: see fitch and fichu.
 

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