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goatfish

noun

Etymology

From goat + fish. The Mullidae sense is because of the fish's beard (as it were) seeming like a goat's beard (a goatee). The chimera sense is because the mythical beast is half goat and half 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 goatfish — “goat + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of the family Mullidae of brightly coloured fish with two barbels on the chin.

  2. Alternative spelling of goat-fish (“mythical beast”).

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for goatfish. 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