ProphetesAI is thinking...
dunfish
Answers
MindMap
Loading...
Sources
DUNFISH Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of DUNFISH is fish cured by dunning.
www.merriam-webster.com
www.merriam-webster.com
dunfish, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the noun dunfish is in the mid 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for dunfish is from 1746, in Boston Weekly News-letter.
www.oed.com
www.oed.com
dunfish - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From dun + fish, from its colour. Noun. edit. dunfish (uncountable). A kind of cured codfish.
en.wiktionary.org
en.wiktionary.org
Codfish - Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
The dumb- or dunfish ... Very good that can be, but what Ellen Coolidge sent her grandfather in 1825 was the best grade of dunfish, very probably from the Isles ...
www.monticello.org
www.monticello.org
Dun-fish - Websters Dictionary 1828
DUN-FISH, noun Codfish cured in a particular manner. [See Dunning.] Websters Dictionary 1828. SITEMAP. Home · Preface · History · Quotations. INFORMATION ...
webstersdictionary1828.com
webstersdictionary1828.com
dun-fish
ˈdunfish, dun-fish U.S. local. (New England). [f. dun a.] Cod cured by dunning (see dun v.1 1 b).[Cf. 1792 Dumb-fish s.v. dumb a. 8.] 1828 Webster, Dun-fish. 1873 Celia Thaxter Isles of Shoals 83 A real dunfish is handsome, cut in transparent strips, the color of brown sherry wine. The process is a ...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
definition of Dunfish by The Free Dictionary
1. Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
www.thefreedictionary.com
www.thefreedictionary.com
"DUNFISH": Codfish dried without salt, brownish - OneLook
noun: A kind of cured codfish. Similar: codfish, codfisher, stockfish, codfisherman, codfishery, fish, saltfish, moonfish, salt cod, inkfish, more.
www.onelook.com
www.onelook.com
Dunfish #206.211 - FusionDex.org
A Dunfish uses the pressure of water it swallows to shoot toxic quills all at once from all over its body. Its drill-tipped tail is used to burrow into the ...
www.fusiondex.org
www.fusiondex.org
Dumb-fish or Dun-fish. World English Historical Dictionary
[The cod] after being properly salted and dried, is kept alternately above and under ground, till it becomes so mellow as to be denominated dumb fish.
www.wehd.com
www.wehd.com
dumb
▪ I. dumb, a. (n.) (dʌm) Forms: 1– dumb; also 3–5 doumb(e, 3–6 domm(e, (4 doum, doump), 4–7 domb(e, dumbe, 5 doom, dowmb(e, dowm(e, dume, 5–6 dome, 5–7 dum, dumm(e. [A Com. Teut. adj.: OE. dumb = OS. dumb (MDu. domp, dom, Du. dom, LG. dum), OHG. tumb, tump (MHG. tump, tum, early mod.G. thumb, mod.G....
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
dun
▪ I. dun, a. (dʌn) Also 4–6 dune, donne, 5 don, 5–7 dunne, 6 doon. β. Sc. 6 dyn, 9 din. [OE. dun(n, perh. from Celtic: cf. Irish and Gael. donn brown, Welsh dwn ‘subfuscus’ (Davies).] 1. Of a dull or dingy brown colour; now esp. dull greyish brown, like the hair of the ass and mouse.953 Charter of E...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai