salmoned
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of salmon
Example Sentences
- "A sportsman wishes to know if any one has a cure for salmoned dogs. He has a young dog which promises to be a good one, and as salmon are soon to be up the creeks he wants to be prepared. There is no specific cure for salmoned dogs."
- "Having regard to the gentleman’s location (Oregon) and the season of the year it is probable that this dog had been eating a salmon that had died after spawning, which in a great number of instances seem to poison the dog, very often fatally. This is just a line in case this question of a “salmoned dog,” as it is known, has not come under your notice, and is not meant in any critical sense whatsoever."
- "Some owners purposely try to feed infected fish and institute early sulfonamide therapy to produce solid immunity in the “salmoned” dog."
Etymology
From salmon + -ed.