Citations:brismak

(Shetland, Orkney) tusk (fish)

 * also brismac


 * 1804, Edward Donovan, The Natural History of British Fishes: Including Scientific and General Descriptions of the Most Interesting Species and an Extensive Selection of Accurately Finished Coloured Plates, Taken Entirely from Original Drawings:
 * The Torsk it seems, from his account, or as it is called in the Shetlands, Tusk and Brismak, is a northern fish, which as yet has not been discovered lower to the southward than the Orknies, and is even rather scarce there.
 * 1812, Class III: reptiles, IV. fishes, page 270:
 * The Torsk, or, as it is called in the Shetlands, Tusk and Brismak, is a northern fish; and as yet undiscovered lower than about the Orknies, and even there it is rather scarce.
 * 1886, "A---d B---y", "Letter in the Dialct of the Shetland Isles", in George Laurence Gomme, Dialect, Proverbs and Word-lore: A Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of The Gentleman's Magazine from 1731-1868, page 31:
 * itt I wiz kummin hemm frae Ska, / whaar I wiz rowin dat simmer, / ee setterdey nycht wi a biudie o' / ling hedds an peerie brismaks, an / bruk o' dat kynd apo ma bak,
 * that I was coming home from / Ska, wheere I was fishing that / summer, one Saturday night with a creil [or basket] ling heads / and small tusk-fish, and scaps / of that kind upon my back,
 * 1898 April 2, Shetland News:
 * Twa brismaks, a stäblin&#39;, an&#39; four krooners [grey gurnards]!
 * 1899 July 1, Shetland News:
 * I cam ta da restin' shair wi' ane o' da brismak muggies [fish stomachs] reekin' i' my haand.
 * 1899 July 1, Shetland News:
 * I pervail'd apo&#39; wir folk ta hae gree&#39;d [boiledso quickly as to exude fat] brismaks for da supper. Der no a better or heltier dyd &#39;at gengs i&#39; da mooth o&#39; ony ane ... as gree&#39;d fish.


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 * 1711, Robert Monteith (of Eglisha and Gairsa.), The Description of the Isles of Orkney and Zetland. With the Mapps of Them ... Published by S[ir] R[obert] S[ibbald] M.D., page 8:
 * an excellent kind of Fin is caught upon the East bide of this Country, the Inhabitants call it Brismaks, the Hollanders call it Lump, and the Scots call it sulk. Whales are calt in upon the Shore sometimes, which the Admiral Deputies friz upun ...
 * 1884, Francis Day, The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, page 324:
 * The Torsk is likwise termed Tusk and Brismak in the Shetlands, also the cat-fish.
 * 1884, The Fisheries Exhibition Literature ..., page 229:
 * Brismak is another name of this fish, and is used in Shetland.