piscatorial
adjective
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adj
Etymology: From Latin piscātor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).
- Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
“There should be no plea put in by him in his absences, that he had only gone to catch a few fish, when his intentions had been other than piscatorial.”
“That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.”
- Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
“The tropical boxfish may not look the sleekest or sexiest of piscatorial creatures, but the Mercedes team knew better.”
“There are dozens of photographs, but it is not the piscatorial pornography that makes this book so exciting so much as the stories Mr Buller has unearthed.”