MUTTONFISH Definition & Meaning

muttonfish

[ muht-n-fish ]

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plural (especially collectively) muttonfish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) muttonfishes.

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1725–35, Americanism; mutton ¹ + fish, so called for its muttonlike taste

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“When I was about your age, I stood right here and watched him catch a fourteen-pound muttonfish off the wings of a stingray.”

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“Paine, you ’member that big muttonfish I caught here?” he asked my father.

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