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Definition: Stockfish |
StockfishNoun1. Fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stockfish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Etymology: Stockfish \Stock"fish`\, noun. [Compare to Dutch stokvisch.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Stockfish I will beat thee like a stockfish. Moffet and Bennet, in their Health's Improvement (p. 262), inform us that dried cod, till it is beaten, is called buckhorn, because it is so tough; but after it has been beaten on the stock, it is termed stockfish. (In French, etriller quelqu'un, a double carillon, "to a pretty tune.") "Peace! thou wilt be beaten like a stockfish else."- Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, iii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aphony | Adjective: aphonous, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel; silent; (taciturn); muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stockfish |
| English words defined with "stockfish": Titling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stockfish": Jack of Dover. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stockfish": Salpa. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stockfish" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (stockfish). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ford stockfish | 6 |
stockfish | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stockfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | peshk i tharë pa kriposje. (various references) | |
Arabic | السمك القديد المملح. (various references) | |
Czech | treska (cod, codfish, whiting). (various references) | |
Danish | stokfisk, toerfisk. (various references) | |
Dutch | stokvis (European hake, hake). (various references) | |
French | stockfisch. (various references) | |
German | Stockfisch. (various references) | |
Greek | stockfish, ξηρόσ μπακαλάοσ, μπακαλάοσ (codfish). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szárított tõkehal, szárított tőkehal. (various references) | |
Italian | stoccafisso. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 干し魚 (dried fish). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほしざかな (dried fish), ほしうお (dried fish). (various references) | |
Manx | eeast chirrym. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockfishstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | stockfish, bacalhau seco. (various references) | |
Romanian | batog uscat. (various references) | |
Russian | вяленая рыба. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bakalar (cod, codfish, haddock). (various references) | |
Sicilian | pisci stoccu. (various references) | |
Spanish | stockfisch, pescado de seco. (various references) | |
Swedish | stockfisk, spillånga, lutfisk. (various references) | |
Turkish | kurutulmuş tuzsuz balık. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | в'ялена риба. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stockfish": stockfishes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-h-i-k-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: stockish. | |
-2 letters: fossick, schtiks, shticks, softish. | |
-3 letters: foists, hoicks, hoists, kitsch, schist, schtik, shifts, shocks, shtick, shtiks, sickos, stichs, sticks, stocks, stoics, thicks. | |
-4 letters: chits, cists, coifs, costs, fiscs, fists, fitch, foist, hicks, hists, hocks, hoick, hoist, hosts, kists, kiths, scots, shift, shist, shock, shots, shtik, sicko, sicks, sifts, skits, skosh, socks, softs, soths. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-h-i-k-o-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: stockfishes. | |
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