soft roe

noun

1. milt ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of soft roe¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

Place the eggs or soft roes inside, and tie with twine.

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The soft roe, or spermatic part, of the male fish.

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Clean a four-pound striped bass and soak the soft roes of four shad in cold water.

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Walter and Rupert and Foch had jolly soft roes, a fact which is recorded in a cynical little poem by the precocious Foch, believed to be the only literary work of a whitebait now extant.

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The greedy Vitellius, growing tired of this dish, would at last, as Suetonius assures us, eat only the soft roe; and numerous vessels ploughed the seas in order to obtain it for him.

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