barracouta loaf

English

After the regional name for a thin, metre-long fish, from the shape of the loaf and its rough crust, thought to resemble the back of the fish.

barracouta loaf (plural barracouta loaves)

(New Zealand) A long, narrow loaf, often indented in the middle so that it can be broken in two.[1]
- 1918, Katherine Mansfield, “Prelude” in Bliss and Other Stories, Toronto: Macmillan, 1920, p. 53,
  Alice was making water-cress sandwiches. She had a lump of butter on the table, a barracouta loaf, and the cresses tumbled in a white cloth.
- 2000, anonymous, “Home Town” in Gordon McLauchlan (ed.), Morrieson’s Motel, Auckland: Tandem Press, p. 199,
  As Clarry remembered we were a big family—a twenty-five double barracouta loaves and fifteen pints a week family.

Elizabeth and Harry Orsman, The New Zealand Dictionary, Auckland: New House Publishers, 1994.

单词	barracouta loaf
释义	barracouta loaf English Etymology After the regional name for a thin, metre-long fish, from the shape of the loaf and its rough crust, thought to resemble the back of the fish. Noun barracouta loaf (plural barracouta loaves) (New Zealand) A long, narrow loaf, often indented in the middle so that it can be broken in two.[1] 1918, Katherine Mansfield, “Prelude” in Bliss and Other Stories, Toronto: Macmillan, 1920, p. 53, Alice was making water-cress sandwiches. She had a lump of butter on the table, a barracouta loaf, and the cresses tumbled in a white cloth. 2000, anonymous, “Home Town” in Gordon McLauchlan (ed.), Morrieson’s Motel, Auckland: Tandem Press, p. 199, As Clarry remembered we were a big family—a twenty-five double barracouta loaves and fifteen pints a week family. References Elizabeth and Harry Orsman, The New Zealand Dictionary, Auckland: New House Publishers, 1994.
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