pilchard

• n. 沙丁魚；皮爾徹德魚

詞源不詳。

pilchard (n.)

fish of the herring family, 1540s, earlier pilcher (1520s), of unknown origin. The -d- is "excrescent" [OED].

1. She's not the pilchard sort of little slip of a girl , she's a Bonny Scotch trout.

她並不象那瘦小的沙丁, 她是動人的蘇格蘭白鱸魚.

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