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I too got hit by a fish: cornobbled adj. -- hit with a fish. After clicking 'More' in Mrs. Byrne's site for about fifteen minutes. I can picture the codfishermen of a hundred years ago, pulling in codfish fast and furious, hitting each other with fish in their haste, because they had to catch all they could before the fist stopped biting. A wonderful book for a boy is: Kipling's
Captains Courageous. The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 80, issue 482 (December 1897). ...
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.author/r.143.html
PS I got hooked by one typo. No mischievous intent. Just got away from me.Maybe I was thinking of the fishermen pulling them in "hand over fist."
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