Salmon vs Mort - What's the difference?
salmon | mort |
One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily.
A yellowish pink colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
(Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout )
* 1992 , The Shamen (band), (Ebeneezer Goode) (song)
Having a yellowish pink colour.
* 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 155:
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
* Sir Walter Scott
(UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
A great quantity or number.
* Charles Dickens
(internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
(slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
* Ben Jonson
As nouns the difference between salmon and mort
is that salmon is one of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily while mort is death; especially, the death of game in hunting.As proper nouns the difference between salmon and mort
is that salmon is {{surname|lang=en} while Mort is a diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.As an adjective salmon
is having a yellowish pink colour.salmon
English
(wikipedia salmon)Noun
(en-noun)- Got any salmon ?
Synonyms
* (fish) lax * (smoked salmon) lox * (colour) salmon pinkDerived terms
* Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ) * (Salmo salar ) * beaked salmon () * (Salmo salar ) * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * ) * (Salmo salar ) * ) * chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta ) * coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch ) * Danube salmon (Hucho hucho ) * ) * dog salmon (Oncorhynchus keta ) * (Salmo salar ) * ) * humpback salmon () * (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * land-locked salmon (Salmo salar ) * Nova Scotia salmon * (Salmo salar ) * (Oncorhynchus spp.) * ) * (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * rock salmon * salmon and trout * (Cacatua moluccensis ) * salmon day * (Eucalyptus spp.) * salmon ladder * salmon leap * salmon peel * ) * ) * salmon trout (Salmo gairdneri ) * ) * salmonberry () * salmonid * (Salmo salar ) * silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch'', ''Salmo salar ) * smoked salmon * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * spring salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha )Adjective
(-)- Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.
See also
* * alevin * anadromous * arctic char * blackfish * coarse fish * gravlax * grilse * kelt * kipper * lox * parr * redfish * smolt * sockeye * trout * yolk frymort
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
Derived terms
* mort cloth * mort stoneEtymology 2
Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".Noun
- There was a mort of merrymaking.
Etymology 3
Shortening of (mortal).Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* immort English clippingsEtymology 4
Uncertain.Etymology 5
Noun
(en noun)- Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.