talking catfish

English

Noun

talking catfish (plural talking catfishes or talking catfish)

1. Any of the catfishes of the family Doradidae, able to produce sound by moving their pectoral spine or vibrating their swim bladder.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talking,‎ catfish.
   • 2012 March 12, Angela O'Hara, “Mysterious Object of Desire: The Haunted Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul”, in Philippa Gates, Lisa Funnell, editors, Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas: The Reel Asian Exchange (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)‎^[1], Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:

     In one of the few unexpected moments in the film, she then consummates her newfound freedom in a brief but apparently satisfying cross-species love affair with a talking catfish.

   • 2017, Jim VandenBosch, ““Heaven Is Overrated”: Two Movies That Posit Life Beyond Death”, in The Gerontologist‎^[2], volume 57, number 5, Oxford University Press US, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 998–1000:

     It involves a princess despondent over her looks who is literally seduced by a talking catfish.