minnow
To fish for minnowsTo fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).
» I fish for trout with minnows.
Ich fische Forelle mit Elritzen. — christian63
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2 senses(intransitive)To fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).
(intransitive)To fish, especially for trout, using minnows as bait.
Examples
5 sentencesI fish for trout with minnows.
deIch fische Forelle mit Elritzen. — christian63
Tom is a minnow in the Boston academic community.
Sometimes I like to feed leftover breadcrumbs to the minnows in the neighborhood pond.
The opposition minnows fought a desperate rearguard action in defence of their one-goal lead.
deDie kleinen Fische der generischen Mannschaft verteidigten in erbitterter Verteidigungsschlacht ihren Eintorvorsprung. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Europe is a minnow when it comes to the chips that are vital to high-end manufacturing.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
The noun is derived from Late Middle English menew, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) coThe noun is derived from Late Middle English menew, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus); or stickleback (possibly the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus)”), from Old English *mynwe, an oblique form of *mynu, a variant of myne (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”). Possibly influenced by Anglo-Norman menu (“small”) and Old French menu (“small”), and English minim (“anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like”).
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Forms
minnows, minnowing, minnowed, minnowedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle