fishlore

noun

Etymology

From fish + lore.

  1. inherited from *laizō
  2. inherited from *laiʀu
  3. inherited from lār
  4. inherited from lore
  5. compounded as fishlore — “fish + lore

Definitions

  1. The knowledge, stories, and traditions associated with angling or fishing.

    • Another index renders all this fishlore at once accessible to the angler.
    • This is a ritual — a completely bogus ritual — staged mainly to amuse the locals, wherein gullible tourists are forced to recite some fishlore gibberish and drink a kick of rum (the infamous screech) and then kiss a cod, [...]
  2. The knowledge, science, or study of fish

    The knowledge, science, or study of fish; ichthyology.

    • I have already mentioned that these fish seem capable of actually breathing atmospheric air, but what the eggs should want with air, and compressed air at that, I leave others better versed in fishlore to explain.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fishlore. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA