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mudcat

noun

Etymology

From mud + cat.

  1. derived from catta
  2. derived from cattus
  3. inherited from *kattuz✻
  4. inherited from *kattu✻
  5. inherited from catt
  6. inherited from cat
  7. compounded as mudcat — “mud + cat”

Definitions

  1. A catfish, Ameiurus natalis (yellow bullhead), native to the Mississippi Delta.

  2. A flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris, syns. Silurus olivaris, Leptops olivaris),…

    A flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris, syns. Silurus olivaris, Leptops olivaris), flatty or shovelhead cat, of central North America.

The neighborhood

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