dogfish
/dˈɔɡfˌɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.32 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark."
- "Bowfins, sometimes called Dog-fish, live in sluggish waters throughout eastern N.A."
Etymology
From dog + fish. Compare Greek σκυλόψαρο (skylópsaro, “dogfish”), Latin canicula (“dogfish”, literally “little dog”), Italian pescecane (“dogfish”), French chien de mer (literally “dog of the sea”), German Meerhund (literally “seadog”) and Hundfisch (“dogfish”), and English seadog. For non-Indo-European cognates, see Maltese kelb il-baħar (literally “dog of the sea”) and Turkish köpek balığı (“shark”), likely calques from Indo-European languages.
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
arrowhead dogfish
Azores dogfish
bareskin dogfish
birdbeak dogfish
black dogfish
broadband dogfish
chain dogfish
combtooth dogfish