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squawfish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
squaw-fish
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The pikeminnow.

Offensive

Etymology

From squaw + fish. It has been suggested that squawfish could be a corruption of *squawkfish (in reference to the sound the fish makes when taken out of the water), but that form is unattested, and compare oldsquaw ducks which were named because their squawking was likened to Native American women's.

Usage

Inflected Forms

squawfishes (plural)

Questions

What does squawfish mean?
The pikeminnow.
Where does squawfish come from?
From squaw + fish. It has been suggested that squawfish could be a corruption of *squawkfish (in reference to the sound the fish makes when taken out of the water), but that form is unattested, and compare oldsquaw ducks which were named because their squawking was likened to Native American women's.

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