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crawdab

crawdab noun: crayfish.

Noun

crawdab (plural crawdabs)

  1. (dialectal) Crayfish.

Forms of crawdab

pluralcrawdabs

Origin of crawdab

Alteration of crawfish, possibly replacing the second element fish (due to folk-etymology) with dab (“flatfish”).

Questions about crawdab

What does crawdab mean?
Crawdab means crayfish.
What part of speech is crawdab?
Crawdab is a noun.
What is the plural of crawdab?
The plural of crawdab is crawdabs.

Words near crawdab in the dictionary

  1. crawbeen
  2. crawbob
  3. crawbobs
  4. crawchie
  5. crawchies
  6. crawdab
  7. crawdabs
  8. crawdad
  9. crawdaddies
  10. crawdaddy
  11. crawdads

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