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papermouth

papermouth noun: a fish, the crappie.

Noun

papermouth (plural papermouths)

  1. A fish, the crappie.
    • It is called bachelor in the Ohio Valley, campbellite, croppie, and new-light in Illinois, Indiana, and Кentucky; tin-mouth or paper-mouth in northern Indiana and Illinois, and sac-à-lait, and chinduapin perch in the lower Mississippi and Texas.1905, “Crappie”, in The Nature Library, volume 5, page 334
    • When Earhart and Jarvis found out that the Crappiethon Classic would be held at Lake Harris in Hot Springs, Arkansas, one year, they knew they had to develop new strategies for taking papermouths, because the lake was deep and clear -- unlike most of the lakes in their native state of Tennessee.1997, John E. Phillips, Masters' Secrets of Crappie Fishing, page 135

Forms of papermouth

pluralpapermouths

Origin of papermouth

From paper + mouth.

Questions about papermouth

What does papermouth mean?
Papermouth means a fish, the crappie.
What part of speech is papermouth?
Papermouth is a noun.
What is the plural of papermouth?
The plural of papermouth is papermouths.

Words near papermouth in the dictionary

  1. paperman
  2. Papermaster
  3. papermen
  4. papermill
  5. papermills
  6. papermouth
  7. papermouths
  8. papern
  9. paperpeople
  10. paperperson
  11. paperpersons

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