Phrase guide

wet fish

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Fresh fish intended to be cooked.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 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 [...]

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Across languages

Translations

4 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 鮮魚 /鲜鱼 (xiānyú) — fresh fish
  • Dutch: verse vis — fresh fish
  • Finnish: tuore kala — fresh fish
  • German: Frischfisch — fresh fish