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nigger-fishes

nigger-fishes is the plural of nigger-fish.

Meaning of nigger-fish

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
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, offensive) A luderick, blackfish, parore (Girella tricuspidata).

Questions about nigger-fishes

What is nigger-fishes the plural of?
Nigger-fishes is the plural of nigger-fish.

Words near nigger-fishes in the dictionary

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

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