Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
fish-cake , 1.
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Examples
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Inn in the Highlands, and upon all peculiar and national dishes, from the _sardines au gratin_ of Naples to the _sauer kraut_ of Berlin, from the "one fish-ball" of Boston to the hog and hominy of Virginia, -- but never yet upon any _carte_ did we encounter "Cold Missionary" or
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various
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You ought to hear him sing '_We don't serve bread with one fish-ball!
A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926
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When Lavinia told him of it, at the dinner table, he dropped the knife he was holding and the greasy section of fish-ball balanced upon it.
Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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He knew that at the Miner's Restaurant he could get a plate of beans and a piece of bread for ten cents; or a fish-ball and some few trifles, but they gave "no bread with one fish-ball" there.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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He knew that at the Miner's Restaurant he could get a plate of beans and a piece of bread for ten cents; or a fish-ball and some few trifles, but they gave "no bread with one fish-ball" there.
Roughing It, Part 6. Mark Twain 1872
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He knew that at the Miner's Restaurant he could get a plate of beans and a piece of bread for ten cents; or a fish-ball and some few trifles, but they gave "no bread with onefish-ball" there.
Roughing It 1871
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And the nursing of a secret dream-to be impregnable, plock, to be the greatest, plock, and to win, thereby, plock, plock, the respect of men and the love of beautiful women with little white fish-ball cheeks.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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They were still young-my mother was still glamorous in that slightly orientalized, simultaneously petite and fleshy Polish style with little round white fish-ball cheeks that drove Russian men wild-and I'd like to think they were still in love, but without doubt my father suffered from what his side-dodging all questions of morality-called ants in his pants.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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"Real life," said Portlaw, spearing a fish-ball, "is damn monotonous.
The Firing Line 1899
bilby commented on the word fish-ball
If fish-ball = fish-cake, then clearly ball = cake.
So what is a cake ball?
April 24, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word fish-ball
It's something that sounds infinitely more appetizing than a foot-ball.
April 24, 2018