wet fish
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[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."
- "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 […]"