pilchard

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɪl.tʃəd/    美 /ˈpɪl.t͡ʃɚd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae.
    — 1839, John Hookham Frere (translator), The Birds, lines 76–77, in Acharnians and two other plays He longs occasionally for human diet, His old Athenian fare: pilchards, for instance.

词形变化

pilchard plural pilchards plural

词源

From earlier pilcher, adapted to the suffix -ard. Further etymology unknown. Compare Dutch pelser.
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