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fish knife
noun
- a small knife with a spatulalike blade, used with a fork in cutting fish at table.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fish knife1
1375–1425; late Middle English fishknif
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Example Sentences
In what hidden universe do black people exist who can actually distinguish a fish knife from a shoe horn?
From The Daily Beast
"Skurcely," obsarved the stranger, and he drew a diamond-hilted fish-knife and cut orf the capting's hed.
From Project Gutenberg
On Lil's silken bosom reposed a diamond-and-platinum pin the size and general contour of a fish-knife.
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Pieter brought another load of fish and another, and then set to work with a fish knife to help clean the catch and pack it.
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But if you will have the truth: the fish-knife business by all means.
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If there is fish, another extra fork, or else the appropriate little fish knife and fork, is demanded.
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