anchovy
pronunciation
How to pronounce anchovy in British English:
UK [ˈæntʃəvi]
How to pronounce anchovy in American English:
US [ˈæntʃoʊvi]
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- Noun:
- tiny Mediterranean fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces
- small herring-like plankton-feeding fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
Word Origin
- anchovy
- anchovy: [16] English acquired anchovy from Spanish anchova (the word first turns up as an item on Falstaff’s bill at the Boar’s Head: ‘Anchovies and sack after supper … 2s 6d’, 1 Henry IV 1596), but before that its history is disputed. One school of thought holds that it comes via Italian dialect ancioa from Vulgar Latin *apjua, which in turn was derived from Greek aphúē ‘small fry’; but another connects it with Basque anchu, which may mean literally ‘dried fish’.
- anchovy (n.)
- 1590s, from Portuguese anchova, from Genoese or Corsican dialect, perhaps ultimately from either Latin apua "small fish" (from Greek aphye "small fry") [Gamillscheg, Diez], or from Basque anchu "dried fish," from anchuva "dry" [Klein, citing Mahn].
Example
- 1. The anchovy fisheries will stay closed , by eu order .
- 2. Newsfeed hopes none of our readers are anchovy pizza or caesar salad addicts , as fresh little fish may become hard to find .
- 3. As rain dribbled through a makeshift red tent at their pop-up atop a peckham car park , they served up innovative food : cured pork fat and cobnuts ; chicken skin and mead , and even lamb-heart flat breads with a yoghurt and anchovy dressing .