sprat

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sprat /spræt/ noun [countable]  HBFa small fish that is cooked and eaten whole 西鲱〔可食用的小鱼〕

Examples from the Corpus

sprat• This year a mere sprat of a northern lass won my heart playing hers out on a mighty and sonorous trombone.• In fact, Knight Gobies will eat anything from flake to lumps of sprat.• It is a great shoal of sprats that has assembled in these inshore waters.• Once a shoal of respectable dace are attracted in by your feeding, the sprats and minnows will be shouldered out.• Yet numerous younger sprats swam with a gang too.Origin sprat Old English sprott

sprat nounChinese  

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sprat
sprat /spræt/ noun [countable]a small fish that is cooked and eaten whole

Sprat
Sprat, Jack
⇨ see Jack Sprat

spratBrE /spræt/ 🔊NAmE /spræt/ 🔊 nouna very small European sea fish that is used for food 黍鲱（欧洲小海鱼，可食用）