salmon
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L340106 on Wikidata ↗noun
- type of fish
- food
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsæmən/ / /ˈsælmən/ / /ˈsɑmən/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations). The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
- Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
“Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.”
name
Etymology: From Hebrew שַׂלְמוֹן (salmown).
- The father of Boaz by Rahab; the son of Nahshon (biblical figure).
noun
Etymology: From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations). The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
- One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
“grilled salmon”
“salmon paté”
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
“Got any salmon?”
- canned fish, usually mackerel.
“Tinned mackerel is confusingly called ‘salmon’ in Sri Lanka. So this dish, in Sinhalese, is salmon hodi, or salmon in gravy. Now that I think on it, all tinned fish in Sri Lanka is called salmon.”
“With a thick gravy made up of onions, tomatoes, spices, and coconut milk this Sri Lankan salmon curry might breathe new life to those canned mackerels on your shelf.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations). The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
- To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
“2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."”