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barfish

noun

Etymology

From bar + fish.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as barfish — “bar + fish”

Definitions

  1. A yellow bass (Morone mississippiensis)

  2. A white bass (Morone chrysops)

  3. A black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for barfish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA