catfish
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkætfɪʃ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Etymology 1
[edit]From cat + fish. Likely so named for its prominent barbels like a cat's whiskers. Compare West Frisian katfisk (“catfish”), Dutch katvis (“catfish”). Compare also German Seekatze (“catfish”, literally “sea-cat”).
Noun
[edit]catfish (countable and uncountable, plural catfish or catfishes)
- Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
- Synonyms: (Africa) catlet, sheat, sheatfish, river chicken
- 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 213:
- “You don’t see catfish that big anymore, except in Chernobyl […] Nobody fishes there anymore, so the catfish thrive. They’ve gotten really enormous, some even twelve or thirteen feet long. They’re bottom-feeders, and apparently the mud still contains a lot of radioactive particles, but the catfish don’t seem to mind.”
- The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
Derived terms
[edit]- airbreathing catfish
- banjo catfish
- blue catfish
- cat
- catfish effect
- channel catfish
- cuckoo catfish
- electric catfish
- flathead catfish
- ghost catfish
- holy catfish
- leopard catfish
- mudcat
- naked catfish
- North American freshwater catfish
- Pac-Man catfish
- shark catfish
- stinging catfish
- striped catfish
- Striped Raphael catfish
- suffering catfish
- talking catfish
- thorny catfish
- three line catfish
- upside-down catfish
- walking catfish
- wels catfish
- whale catfish
- widemouth blindcat
Translations
[edit]type of fish — see also sheatfish
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Verb
[edit]catfish (third-person singular simple present catfishes, present participle catfishing, simple past and past participle catfished)
- (intransitive) To fish for catfish.
- I only use this rod for catfishing.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From the 2010 documentary Catfish, supposedly inspired by the practice of fishermen keeping cod active by storing them with catfish (see sense 1) which nip at their tails.
Noun
[edit]catfish (plural catfishes)
- (Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
- Synonym: catfisher
- (Internet) Such a false profile.
Translations
[edit]person operating fake profile
fake profile
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Verb
[edit]catfish (third-person singular simple present catfishes, present participle catfishing, simple past and past participle catfished)
- (Internet, slang, transitive) To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).
- 2013 January 17, Mary Pilon, “In Te’o Story, Deception Ripped From the Screen”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Getting catfished is when someone falls for a person online who is not necessarily real. It can involve pictures, phone calls, social media profiles, text messages, e-mails and even phony friends or family members.
- 2014 January 16, 12:17 from the start, in Cooperative Polygraphy (Community), season 5, episode 4 (TV), spoken by Troy (Donald Glover), via NBC:
- [to Abed] You made a profile for a fake dude and lured her into an online relationship. [to Annie] He's catfishing you.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:catfish.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]operate fake profile
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Further reading
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catfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - catfishing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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