burbot
Americannoun
plural
burbots,plural
burbotnoun
Etymology
Origin of burbot
1425–75; late Middle English < Middle French bourbotte, variant of bourbete, derivative of bourbeter to wallow in mud, equivalent to bourbe mud + -t- frequentative suffix + -er infinitive ending
Example Sentences
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The opaline burbot, delicate in its buttery sauce, gets an earthy base from local carrots spiced with caraway.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2019
His father quickly dispatches five prized white fish and a slimy looking burbot ensnared in the net.
From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2019
He joked that he replaced turbot with burbot, a cheaper fish, and forsook truffles but not imagination.
From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2017
On Washington Island, the specialty at KK Fiske is fried burbot, a codlike lakefish also known as a “lawyer.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 14, 2016
They kept it up until after twelve o'clock, when they turned in with a catch of three salmon, several whitefish, and a burbot, which Randy at first took for a codfish.
From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Stratemeyer, Edward
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