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sillock

Saithe \Saithe\, n. [Gael. saoidheam.] (Zo["o]l.) The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock. [Scot.]

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sillock

n. (context Scotland English) A pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish.

Usage examples of "sillock".

He presented his tray first to Lady Sillocks, who, without ceasing to converse, took a glass from the tray.

She was quite sure that she disliked Lady Sillocks, and disliked her whole-heartedly.

Mack sat at the head of the table with Lady Sillocks on his right, and Hazzard on his left.

In fact she was beginning to watch that other woman with a feeling that somehow Lady Sillocks had an especial significance for her, an unpleasing significance.

Mack with an air of feverish finality she felt that she herself was a very small, crude, badly-educated creature in a fluffy pink frock, and that Lady Sillocks knew it and knew it so well that she would assume it as obvious.

As far as I know, Sillocks spends his life visiting every golf course in England.

Mack was rather like the ring-master at a circus, and Lady Sillocks was riding the white horse and cutting oratorical capers.

He sat on the edge of his chair, leaning forward, his face very still and attentive, and it seemed to Ruth that Christopher was taking Lady Sillocks at her own valuation.

He had been up in the conversational clouds with Lady Sillocks and his creative dreams.

Oswin Mack who needed something to play with, and Lady Sillocks who hunted reputation.

Lady Sillocks was a fierce climber, and she had not yet arrived near the top of the ladder.

Lady Sillocks proposed to hire the Stornway Hall, and get the whole of the West End interested.

That funny old house had been hers, a corner of the world into which the Macks and Sillocks did not penetrate.

Ruth, Lady Sillocks wants us to dine with her at Berkeley Square next Tuesday.

He was going to dine with Lady Sillocks, but he came to her about his tie.