[Fictionary] dogdrave results: fiddler wins!

Pierre Abbat phma at phma.optus.nu
Wed Apr 8 00:58:19 EDT 2009


On Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:17:43 Hutch wrote:
> It also gives a possible (!!!) related meaning in the fourth and fifth
> definition below: "dogger. A Dutch smack ... principally used for
> fishing on the Dogger Bank" and "dogger-fish. Fish bought out of the
> Dutch doggers." Seems possible that "dog-drave" and "dogger-fish" are
> related? There is also "dog-tongue. A name assigned to a kind of
> sole."

There is a flatfish called Hippoglossus, which means horsetongue.

Pierre


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