fishet

F4I1S1H4E1T1

noun

A young or small fish.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounfishet (plural fishets)

plural fishets

  1. archaicrareA young or small fish.

    […] fishets that come through the pump, every morning, thick as motelings […]

    1874, Thomas Hood, Whims and Oddities: In Prose and Verse, page 107
    1 more example

    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.

    1867 August 24, “Town Talk”, in Fun, volume the fifth (new series), London: […] J. Alder, →OCLC, page 248, column 1

    Synonyms: fishling, fishlet

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA young or small fish.

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