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razorfish

noun

Etymology

From razor + 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 razorfish — “razor + fish”

Definitions

  1. Any of various not closely related fish, including those of the genera Aeoliscus,…

    Any of various not closely related fish, including those of the genera Aeoliscus, Centriscus, and Xyrichtys.

  2. The razor clam.

    • We must dig hard to get the big “Razor-fish"—a clam with a shell that looks like an old-fashioned razor case, but open at either end. Fisher boys get the razor clam by pushing a kind of corkscrew into the sand […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for razorfish. 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