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cockfish

noun

Etymology

Blend of cock (“penis”) + catfish (“(to create) a fake online profile”).

  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 cockfish — “cock + fish”

Definitions

  1. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.

    • Spawning fish on the redds. A henfish will often be attended by two or three cockfish – whilst displaying ritual combat between themselves, one cock will mate, others may follow [image caption]

  2. A callorhinchid fish, Callorhinchus callorynchus, native to South America.

    • Morphology of the main digestive features of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus, is described and linked to feeding habits. […] The diet of the cockfish is compared with that of other holocephalans.

  3. A cyprinid fish, Hypselobarbus dubius, native to India.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To deceive others by using fake photos of one’s genitalia.

    2. A person who cockfishes.

      • So while a catfish might misrepresent their entire identity - including even stealing photographs from someone else's profile - a cockfish focuses on one specific body part.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cockfish. 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