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nigger-fish

nigger-fish noun: a Caribbean grouper, yellowfish, coney (Cephalopholis fulva) (syn. Epinephelus punctatus, Enneacentrus punctatus (family Serranidae)).

Noun

nigger-fish (plural nigger-fishes or nigger-fish)

  1. (offensive) A Caribbean grouper, yellowfish, coney (Cephalopholis fulva) (syn. Epinephelus punctatus, Enneacentrus punctatus (family Serranidae)).
    • All of the groupers […] are game-fishes worthy of the steel of the angler, and grow to goodly size, twenty to forty pounds. […] Those named are rather sober in their garb, which is more or less marbled or spotted with black, but some of the groupers about Key West are remarkably handsome fishes...1908, James A. Henshall, Favorite Fish & Fishing, page 61
    • Other prominent marine Serranidae in America are the jewfishes, niggerfishes, groupers, hinds, guasas, scamps, squirrel fishes, and yellowtails.1930, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, The New International Encyclopaedia, volume 20, page 638
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, offensive) A luderick, blackfish, parore (Girella tricuspidata).

Forms of nigger-fish

pluralnigger-fishes
pluralnigger-fish
alternative formniggerfish

Origin of nigger-fish

From nigger + fish.

Questions about nigger-fish

What does nigger-fish mean?
Nigger-fish means a Caribbean grouper, yellowfish, coney (Cephalopholis fulva) (syn. Epinephelus punctatus, Enneacentrus punctatus (family Serranidae)).
What part of speech is nigger-fish?
Nigger-fish is a noun.
What is the plural of nigger-fish?
The plural of nigger-fish is nigger-fishes.

Words near nigger-fish in the dictionary

  1. nigger university
  2. nigger-boy
  3. nigger-boys
  4. nigger-brown
  5. nigger-browns
  6. nigger-fish
  7. nigger-fishes
  8. nigger-free
  9. nigger-fucker
  10. nigger-fuckers
  11. nigger-head

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