fisher

名词 n.
/ˈfɪʃə/    /ˈfɪʃɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.
    — The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands.
  2. A North American marten-like mammal (Pekania pennanti), that has thick brown fur.
    — In many ways the fisher resembles the pine marten, possessing many of the marten's tricks and manners.
  3. Fur of specimens of species Pekania pennanti.

词形变化

fishers plural fishers plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English fischer, fischare, from Old English fisċere (“fisher”), from Proto-Germanic *fiskārijaz (“fisher”), equivalent to fish + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fisker (“fisher”), West Frisian fisker (“fisher”), Dutch visser (“fisher”), German Low German Fisker, Fisser (“fisher”), German Fischer (“fisher”), Danish fisker (“fisher”), Swedish fiskare (“fisher”).
词源 2
From French fichet (“polecat pelt”), probably from Dutch visse (“nasty”); modified by folk etymology to resemble Etymology 1.
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