Meanings
- uncountableFresh fish intended to be cooked.
[Plaice] is a difficult fish to manage, and in poor neighbourhoods an important one to manage well. The old hands make a profit out of it; new hands a loss. There’s not much cod or other wet fish sold to the poor, while plaice is in.
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, G. Woodfall and Son, page 681 more example
2007, Virginia Ironside, review of You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson by Terence Blacker, Literary Review, April 2007, p. 39, Posing as [Henry] Root, a wildly right-wing wet-fish merchant, Donaldson wrote to a variety of political figures and celebrities […]
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 鮮魚 /鲜鱼
- 鮮魚 /鲜鱼 (xiānyú)fresh fish
Dutch verse vis
- verse visfresh fish
Finnish tuore kala
- tuore kalafresh fish
German Frischfisch
- Frischfischfresh fish
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wet fish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wet%20fish
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