Word.ws English Dictionary

sharkfolk

sharkfolk noun: sharks collectively, when treated anthropomorphically as a people or culture.

Noun

sharkfolk pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, rare) Sharks collectively, when treated anthropomorphically as a people or culture.
    • […] well, you've been kidnapped by King Reidmar's dastardly agents, who are demanding a handsome ransom for you, or else you'll be fed to the sharkfolk of Mirkengrim.2007, Sophie Masson, Thomas Trew and the Klint-King's Gold, London: Hodder Children's Books, →ISBN, page 162
    • Small coves offer some potential as harbors, but often the local sharkfolk called Kaneano use those harbors themselves.2012, Amber E. Scott, Pathfinder Player Companion: Pirates of the Inner Sea, Paizo Publishing, LLC., →ISBN, page 7

Origin of sharkfolk

From shark + folk.

Questions about sharkfolk

What does sharkfolk mean?
Sharkfolk means sharks collectively, when treated anthropomorphically as a people or culture.
What part of speech is sharkfolk?
Sharkfolk is a noun.

Words near sharkfolk in the dictionary

  1. Sharkey County
  2. Sharkeys
  3. sharkfin
  4. sharkfins
  5. sharkflesh
  6. sharkfolk
  7. sharkful
  8. sharki
  9. sharkie
  10. sharkies
  11. sharking

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sharkfolk (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sharkfolk.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sharkfolk. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.