BOCACCIO Definition & Meaning

bocaccio

[ buh-kah-choh, -chee-oh, boh- ]

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noun

plural bocaccios.

a large, brown, big-mouthed rockfish, Sebastes paucispinis, of California coastal waters.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of bocaccio¹

First recorded in 1880–85; from Italian boccaccio “ugly mouth,” equivalent to bocc(a) “mouth” (from Latin bucca ) + -accio pejorative suffix, apparently replacing a Latin American Spanish fish name of like formation; compare Spanish bocacha “big mouth”

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Among his targets were some volumes deemed classics of European literature even then, including Bocaccio’s “Decameron.”

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A classic work of literature from the Middle Ages, Bocaccio’s “The Decameron,” reads in some ways as a guide to social distancing and self-isolation.

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After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen – those who use nets to catch rockfish, bocaccio, sole, Pacific Ocean perch and other deep-dwelling fish – are making a comeback here, reinventing themselves as a sustainable industry less than two decades after authorities closed huge stretches of the Pacific Ocean because of the species’ depletion.

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After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen - those who use nets to catch rockfish, bocaccio, sole, Pacific Ocean perch and other deep-dwelling fish - are making a comeback here, reinventing themselves as a sustainable industry less than two decades after authorities closed huge stretches of the Pacific Ocean because of the species’ depletion.

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After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen — those who use nets to catch rockfish, bocaccio, sole, Pacific Ocean perch and other deep-dwelling fish — are making a comeback here, reinventing themselves as a sustainable industry less than two decades after authorities closed huge stretches of the Pacific Ocean because of the species’ depletion.

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