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whistlefish

whistlefish noun: a fish: the gossat or rockling.

Noun

whistlefish (plural not attested)

  1. (archaic, dialectal, no plural) A fish: the gossat or rockling.

Origin of whistlefish

From whistle + fish.

Questions about whistlefish

What does whistlefish mean?
Whistlefish means a fish: the gossat or rockling.
What part of speech is whistlefish?
Whistlefish is a noun.

Words near whistlefish in the dictionary

  1. whistled in the wind
  2. whistled past
  3. whistled past the graveyard
  4. whistled up
  5. Whistlefield
  6. whistlefish
  7. whistlegraph
  8. whistlegraphing
  9. whistleless
  10. whistlelike
  11. whistler

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