stock-fish

Compare some of these to what's said this political season: • "You starveling, you eel skin, you bull's pizzle!" • "You stock-fish, you bow case!"

Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults Ken Adelman 2010

They even had no occasion for buying a wind from the Lapland witches, and contented themselves with giving them some stock-fish, that they might not disturb their good fortune with their enchantments; which sometimes happens, if we may believe

Candide 2007

The sound of the stock-fish, boiled in wort or thin ale till they were tender, then laid on a cloth and dried, and finally cut into strips, was thought a good receipt for book-glue.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

Faces seen in street and countryside came thronging up before him — red, stock-fish faces; hard, dull faces; prim, dry faces; violent faces; hundreds, thousands of them!

To Let 2004

Stockfish Perhaps the best known dried fish in the West is the Scandinavian stock-fish, which traditionally has been cod, ling, or their relatives, freeze-dried for several weeks on rocky beaches along the cold, windy coasts of Norway, Iceland, and Sweden.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Stockfish Perhaps the best known dried fish in the West is the Scandinavian stock-fish, which traditionally has been cod, ling, or their relatives, freeze-dried for several weeks on rocky beaches along the cold, windy coasts of Norway, Iceland, and Sweden.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

I will write some words on a dried stock-fish, for I have no paper, and you must give it to the

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

And when Gerda was warmed and had had something to eat and drink, the Lapland woman wrote on a dried stock-fish, and begged

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

The boatswain, who had cast his lines early in the morning, caught three large cod, each more than thirty inches long, of the species which, when dried, is known by the name of stock-fish.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

Bank Stock will fall like stock-fish by this bad news, and two days ago I could have got twelve pounds by my bargain; but I do not intend to sell, and in time it will rise.

The Journal to Stella 2003