fish house
- noun
- /fɪʃ haʊs/
- US
:
cabaña de pesca
- The anglers gathered in their comfortable fish house while waiting for the fish to bite through the ice.
Examples
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They set up a fish house on the frozen lake.
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They set up their fish house early in the morning to get the best spot on the lake.
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A portable fish house makes ice fishing much more comfortable during cold weather.
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After drilling a hole, the group gathered inside the fish house to wait for a catch.
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Look at that fish house with the blue roof!
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On a cold winter day, we set up our equipment inside the fish house to start ice fishing.
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We found shelter from the wind in a small, heated fish house on the frozen lake.
How Comfortable
- US
22
6.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'a shelter used for fishing' is directly and compositionally built from 'fish' + 'house' as a noun compound meaning a house related to fishing. Even though the supplied definitions are somewhat narrow (fish as food; house as a firm), the common senses 'fish' (animal/act of fishing) and 'house' (building/shelter) make this meaning immediately inferable to a B1 learner; comparable compounds exist cross-linguistically.
Etymology
Fish house also names a small shelter for ice fishing; imagine a tiny house set on a frozen lake where people who fish sit and fish through a hole. So it means 'a small shelter or hut used by anglers for ice fishing'.