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holibut

holibut is the archaic form of halibut.

Meaning of halibut

Noun

halibut (plural halibuts or halibut)

  1. A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.
    • [...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV

Forms of holibut

pluralholibuts
pluralholibut

Questions about holibut

What is holibut the archaic form of?
Holibut is the archaic form of halibut.

Words near holibut in the dictionary

  1. Holguín
  2. Holhudhoo
  3. Holhurahaa
  4. Holi
  5. holibobs
  6. holibut
  7. holibuts
  8. holibutt
  9. holidam
  10. holidate
  11. holidates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: holibut (page history and authors); halibut (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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