whitebait
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noun, plural white·bait.
1.
a young sprat or herring.
2.
Cookery. any small, delicate fish cooked whole without being cleaned, especially the sprat.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the young of herrings, sprats, etc, cooked and eaten whole as a delicacy |
| 2. | any of various small silvery fishes, such as Galaxias attenuatus of Australia and New Zealand and Allosmerus elongatus of North American coastal regions of the Pacific |
| [C18: from its formerly having been used as bait] | |
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Whitebait
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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whitebait
any of several species of small, slim schooling fish of the family Atherinidae (order Atheriniformes), found in freshwater and along coasts around the world in warm and temperate regions
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Example sentences
Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn, are caught as whitebait.
My latest such experience involved capturing and devouring whitebait.
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