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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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BRESSIE, Brassy, n. “A fish, supposed to be the Wrasse, or Old Wife, Labrus Tinca, Linn.” (Fif. 1808 Jam.). Later identified as the bib or pout, Gadus luscus (Lth. 1838 Wernerian Soc. Mem. VII. 340; Sc. 1905 A. R. Forbes Gaelic Names 365; Fif. 1951).Fif. 1710 R. Sibbald Fife and Kinross 53:
I take it to be the same our Fishers call a Bressie, a Foot long, swine-headed, and mouth'd and backed, broad-bodied, very fat, eatable.
m.Lth. 1808 P. Neill List of Fishes in Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. Memoirs (1811) 538:
The brassy is found, in the summer months, on the bettle or rocky grounds. It is not common here.

[Poss. a corruption, as Jam. seems to suggest, of Eng. wrasse, through an intermediate form *vrasse.]

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