gibfish

English

Noun

gibfish (plural gibfish)

1. (UK, dialect) A male salmon.
   • 1834, Thomas Medwin, The Angler in Wales: Or, Days and Nights of Sportsmen:

     When a gib fish has found a stream that he likes , he makes a hole as a swine works in the ground with his nose , his mouth being nailed with the gib in its socket

   • 1885, Edward Hamilton, Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling:

     In Northumberland the male [salmon] is called a summercock, or gibfish

References

“gibfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.