green fish

American  

plural noun

Newfoundland.

1. fish that have been split and salted but not yet cured.

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Example Sentences

Instead of legs, she had a green fish tail.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

So: nettle sandwiches, huckleberry hand pies, sardine pâté with fennel pollen and a pretty great recipe for green fish stew, which turns out to be pan-fried fish in a chile-spiked purée of tomatillos and green aromatics.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2016

A glass of water, decorated with orange and green fish, stands on the table beside a box of tissues.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2013

A small, dark green fish with dusky bands, the climbing perch inhabits Far Eastern estuaries and rivers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The expense of the Statesman was defrayed by the sale of green fish to the contractor.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin