Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin piscātor ("fisherman"), from piscis ("fish"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Although Eric Earling is a name, albeit assonantal, is one which might pose a greater difficulty in mocking for those without a post-primary school education or a person with an anti-piscatory bent.”
Sound Politics: Did Darcy Burner Vote Republican in the 2000 Presidential Primary?
“The "piscatory flavor" of the air and the hat like a wheel of Stilton definitely got me, too.”
The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Ending the First Book
“The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it, as sick people went down to be dipped in the sea." p.16 Smells like Pier 39!”
The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Ending the First Book
“The best of these are the piscatory equivalent of salt-cured hams.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“Joscelin winding the cord of his fishing-line and explaining the finer points of the piscatory arts to Imri.”
“With the iron hams, the piscatory phenomenon referred to in my last, and a can of really excellent oysters, Ned's birthday dinner was a _chef-d'oeuvre_.”
“His birthday-celebration dinner, at which the New Year's piscatory phenomenon figures in the bill of fare.”
“Doubtless many a sanguine aspirant to piscatory fame, has, after an expensive outlay at a tackle shop, been grieviously disappointed when trying his luck in a celebrated Trout stream, -- he discovers to his intense disgust and mortification, that the fish will "not come and be killed.”
“In fact, our piscatory character could not be doubted.”
“There is much truth in the homely adage, that "what is one man's meat is another man's poison," and a person who has been _muscled_ [1] will, if he wishes to enjoy his health, rigidly eschew that piscatory poison.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piscatory’.
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Food--and our love for it!
words involving food and enjoying food
refection, gourmand, hedonist, foodie, gustation, gustatory, pescatarian, piscatory, postprandial, abligurition, haslet, epicurean and 5 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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Notepad
Things I want to remember for later.
recherche, tatterdemalion, lorgnette, hardihood, frippery, mountebank, gewgaw, slumbrous, spatterdashes, callithump, obfuscatory, supererogatory and 58 more...
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arby Having to do with fish, no? Jun 9, 2007