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Someone who fishes for hours to avoid people, then calls it patience.
means A person who fishes with a hook and line, especially as a hobby, and who has somehow convinced everyone this counts as relaxation.
from From 'angle,' an old word for a fishhook or bent fishing rod, tracing back to the Old English 'angel' — related to 'ange,' meaning a bend or hook shape. The same ancient root, via a completely different branch, gives us 'angle' as in geometry, both circling back to the idea of a bend or corner. So an angler is literally 'one who hooks,' a name earned long before the patience-as-excuse routine was perfected.
- deep sea cousin
- anglerfish dangles its own glowing lure
- etymology
- from old english angul, meaning hook
- real skill
- mostly just waiting really well