minnow
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- noun
- /ˈmɪnoʊ/
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pececillo
- While fishing in the stream, we caught several tiny minnows swimming close to the shore.
- minnows for bait
- catch minnows
- live minnows
Examples
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Ah, he caught a couple of minnows.
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- Ah, here, the minnows are on me.
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And you will do wondrous things, my little minnow.
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We get some worms, some minnows.
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Fishing for minnows was depressing compared to being out on the open Sound.
Fiction book (1998) -
Rena watched the small lives in the water, the water walkers, minnows, and the tadpoles.
Fiction book (1990) -
I looked pitifully small and helpless alongside the two-kilometer-long asteroid, like a minnow next to a whale.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the September light, the alleyway quivered like a stream teeming with minnows.
Fiction book (1994) -
The fisherman uses live minnows as bait to attract larger fish in the pond.
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Children enjoyed watching the little minnows darting around in the clear water of the creek.
Synonyms
A very small freshwater fish from Europe that lives in cool gravel streams
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Minnow comes from an old English word, often written as mynna, that meant 'small fish'. So it has long meant a very small freshwater fish, which makes the word easy to remember.