dogfish

noun

Etymology

From dog + fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“dogfish”, literally “little dog”), Italian pescecane (“dogfish”), French chien de mer (literally “dog of the sea”), German Meerhund (literally “seadog”) and Hundfisch (“dogfish”), and English seadog. For non-Indo-European cognates, see Maltese kelb il-baħar (literally “dog of the sea”) and Turkish köpek balığı (“shark”), likely calques from Indo-European languages.

  1. inherited from *peysk- — “fish
  2. inherited from *fiskaz — “fish
  3. inherited from *fisk
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. formed as dogfish — “dog + fish

Definitions

  1. Any of various small sharks

  2. The bowfin, Amia calva.

    • Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dogfish. 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