red

en-noun

red (countable and uncountable, plural reds)

From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).

sekobarbitaali

slang: secobarbital — see also secobarbital

(Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) Red lemonade

The species Sciaenops ocellatus certainly isn’t lacking for nicknames.[…] Clear water also favors sightcasting. Against the dark background of marsh mud, a red will appear like a pumpkin — big, orange and round.

2013 November, Catch Cormier, “Sightcasting for redfish”, in Louisiana Sportsman:

(informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.

punarumpukala

fish Sciaenops ocellatus — see also red drum


cob

cob (countable and uncountable, plural cobs)

Of uncertain origin. The word has many disparate senses, which are likely of diverse origin. The specifics of these origins have long been debated, as has the question of which senses arise from which origins. At least the swan sense originated in Middle English cobbe (“male swan; gang leader; bully”). Some other senses likely originated as a variant of cop (“head, top, peak, summit”). In other senses, the word may be related to cub, itself of obscure origin but possibly from Old Norse kobbi (“seal”). However, many alternative etymologies have been proposed to account for some or all senses of cob; various sources have related it, for example, to English cot (“cottage”), Welsh cob (“top, tuft”), or German Kübel (“large container”). All these etymologies are disputed, and the exact origins of cob cannot be known with any certainty.


spot

→ Catalan: espot

From Middle English spot, spotte, partially from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partially merging with Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Cognate with North Frisian spot (“speck, piece of ground”), Low German spot (“speck”), Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). See also splot, splotch.

cog

A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.


jewfish

каменен костур

any of many types of fish including the Japanese seabass

Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish

Epinephelus itajara (Atlantic goliath grouper, spotted jewfish)


kingfish

en-noun

kingfish (plural kingfishes or kingfish)

Other Atlantic fish
king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)

crevalle jack (Caranx hippos) of Mauritania

Caranx ignobilis
Caranx ignobilis#Translingual

giant trevally or travelli (Caranx ignobilis) of South Africa


drum

Perhaps back-formation from drumslade (“drummer”), from Middle Dutch trommelslach (“drumbeat”), from trommel (“drum”) + slach (“beat”) (Dutch slag).
Or perhaps borrowed directly from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”) et al. Compare also Middle High German trumme, trumbe (“drum”), Old High German trumba (“trumpet”).

back-form

construction barrel
construction barrel#English


bubbler

(US) A freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), of central North America.


red drum

a large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellatus, also called channel bass or redfish.


redfish

Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:

A large red edible fish, Sciaenops ocellatus, also called channel bass or red drum.

Oncorhynchus nerka
Oncorhynchus nerka#Translingual


jew

The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.

1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151


jew

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

Pronunciation spelling of d' you, representing colloquial English.

How jew do that? ("How'd you do that?")

Pronunciation spelling of 'd you, representing colloquial English.


goody

An American fish, the lafayette or spot.


meagre

1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48,
Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] .

It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts.

2008, Arturo Morales-Muñes, Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo, “11: Twenty Thousand Years of Fishing in the Strait”, in Torben C. Rick, Jon M. Erlandson, editors, Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective, page 261:

Meagres (Argyrosomus regius, 230 cm, 103 kg) have been raised mainly in Spain, France and Italy.

2011, John S. Lucas, Paul C. Southgate, Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Animals and Plants, unnumbered page:

Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.


horseman

From Middle English horsman, equivalent to horse + man.

(archaic) Any fish of the genus Equetus.


ombre

(archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa


kob

Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (dusky kob or great kob or perhaps the smaller squaretail kob.


mulloway

I clawed my way up a long, evil hissing slope and saw the light on the lonely beach and my father with a mulloway slung across his back like an aura […].

1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2012, page 79:

To us, a rainy day may mean that we have to rug up and stay inside out of the elements, but the coming of a storm or the rising swell will find a mulloway that lives and feeds along the beaches, waiting around a river entrance for the mullet...

2005, Gary Brown, Beach and Rock Fishing:

Any of the species Argyrosomus japonicus of large fish, found along the eastern coast of Africa and the coasts of Australia, prized for sport.


weakfish

en-noun

weakfish (plural weakfishes or weakfish)

Calque from Dutch weekvis, weekvisch (“weakfish”), equivalent to weak + fish, because of its tender mouth.

Weakfishes have no adipose fin, such as fresh-water trouts possess:[…].

1962, International Oceanographic Foundation, Sea Secrets, volumes 6-8, page 2084:

Larger fish tend to migrate farther north than smaller ones; thus, the New England weakfish fishery may possess a higher percentage of large individuals than is characteristic of the coastwide fishery. Weakfish tend to move about in schools of similar-sized individuals.

1991, Michael R. Ross, Recreational Fisheries of Coastal New England, page 194:

The weakfish is referred to as a gray trout from Maryland south, mainly to separate it from the spotted seatrout (p. 36), which is found in the southern portion of the weakfish’s range. Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) look very much like a freshwater trout, although they exhibit few characteristics of this species.

2001, “Inshore Salt Water Fishing: Learn from the Experts at Salt Water Magazine”, in Salt Water Sportsman, page 90:

The weakfish is also a member of the Sciaenidae family, and its name refers to the tender, easily torn membrane in the fish's mouth, not its fighting ability.

2009, Ken Schultz, Ken Schultz's Essentials of Fishing, page 73:

Any of several species of game fish, of the genus Cynoscion, found in North American waters.


bluenose

(US, Australia) A trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis)


jewie

From jewfish + -ie (“diminutive suffix”), ultimately from jewel.

(Australia) A fish, Argyrosomus hololepidotus; a type of mulloway.


yellowfin

yellowfin (plural yellowfin or yellowfins)

yellowfin cutthroat trout (†Oncorhynchus clarkii macdonaldi, in the family Salmonidae)

yellowfin sea bream, any of several species in family Sparidae

Any of various fish with yellow fins.
yellowfin sole (Limanda aspera)


sea trout

sea trout (plural sea trouts or sea trout)

A fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon and a subspecies of brown trout. It is lighter in colour than the brown trout, and lives in salt water, returning to fresh water only to spawn.


hardhead

Aythya australis
Aythya australis#Translingual

A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.

Nahatʼeʼiitsoh Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełí binááʼ łigaaígíí


corvina

Any of various fish, including Cilus gilberti, Larimichthys polyactis, and members of the genera Cynoscion and Isopisthus.


kabeljou

Borrowed from Afrikaans kabeljou, from Dutch kabeljauw (“cod”).

(South Africa) A type of fish from southern Africa, Argyrosomus coronus.

not to be confused with the squaretail kob


croaker

A fish in the family Sciaenidae, known for the throbbing sounds it makes.


queenfish

queenfish (plural queenfishes or queenfish)


tomcod

From French tacaud?, probably influenced by Tom, tom.

Microgadus tomcod
Microgadus tomcod#Translingual

Any of species Microgadus tomcod, of edible cod found in the Atlantic.


umbrine

Borrowed from translingual Umbrina, coined by French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1817 on page 174 of Volume I of Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation as a Latinization of French Ombrines (“shadowy ones”) from ombre + -ines, Old French onbre, ombre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-.

coin

Any of several food fishes of the genus Umbrina of drums.


white croaker

Pennahia argentata, a species of croaker found in the Northwest Pacific


lafayette

A fish, the goody or spot (Leiostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.


drumfish

en-noun

drumfish (plural drumfishes or drumfish)

Any fish of the family Sciaenidae; they make a loud noise by means of an air bladder.


sciaenid

Sciaenids constitute about 70,000 tonnes of the present demersal catch of the west coast. George, et al. estimated an additional potential of about 90,000 tonnes of sciaenids from the west coast.

1985, K. M. Joseph, “3: Marine Fishery Resources of India”, in G. R. Kulkarni, Uma K. Srivastava, editors, A Systems Framework of the Marine Foods Industry in India, page 112:

In the Indo-West Pacific, sciaenids are important in the equatorial regions of South East Asia but much less so elsewhere.

1997, S. J. Blaber, Fish and Fisheries in Tropical Estuaries, page 107:

It can often be difficult to distinguish an individual's call when a hydrophone is lowered into a chorus of sciaenids.
Like damselfishes, sciaenids tend to have species-specific sounds (Fig. 9.8).

2008, David A. Mann, Anthony D. Hawkins, J. Michael Jech, “9: Active and Passive Acoustics to Locate and Study Fish”, in Jacqueline F. Webb, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay, editors, Fish Bioacoustics, page 298:

(zoology) Any fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae.


sciaenoid

Latin sciaena (“a kind of sea fish, perhaps a kind of grayling or ombre: Thymallus thymallus”), from Ancient Greek σκίαινα (skíaina, “a sea fish, probably either Sciaena umbra or Umbrina cirrosa”), + -oid.

uder

(zoology) Of or relating to the Sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes.


sciaenoid

(zoology) Any of the Sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes.


squeteague

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

The Injuns get to Naturmitgefuhl by the metaphor of a family: if you don't throw the roe-plump squeteague back, that is a sort of nepoticide.

2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 154:

A weakfish, a silvery edible American sciaenoid fish of species Cynoscion regalis.


California corbina

en-noun

California corbina (plural California corbinas or California corbina)

California corbinas (plural)
California corbina (plural)

Menticirrhus undulatus, a saltwater fish in the croaker family.


corbina

As a result, although corbinas commonly utilize mollusks, they are limited to the siphons, foot, or other soft parts that either extend from the shell or can be picked from it.

1962, Fish Bulletin, numbers 118-130, Department of Fish and Game, page 48:


knifefish

knifefish (plural knifefishes or knifefish)

Any of numerous fish with knife-shaped bodies, from several different families.


totoaba

In 1985, seven vaquitas were caught in gill nets being used by Mexican fishermen to catch totoabas (a species of large sea bass), the major commercial species.

1991, Laura O'Biso Socha, Endangered Species of the World, Mallard Press, page 74:

However, porpoises are also caught in other fishing gear, and there is concern that effort will be re-directed from catching totoabas to catching large sharks and rays in nets that threaten vaquitas (cf. Vidal 1993).

1994, Randall R. Reeves, Stephen Leatherwood, Dolphins, Porpoises, and Whales: 1994-1998 Action Plan for the Conservation of Cetaceans, page 47:

2002 October, Implementation Agreement, Inadvertent Overrun and Payback Policy, and Related Federal Actions, Volume 2: Appendices, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, page G-41,
Totoaba are the largest of the sciaenid fish, with a maximum reported weight of over 100 kg and a length of over 2 meters (Flanagan and Hendrickson 1976).

After the first year, the totoaba spends most of its adult life in the deep waters of the Gulf of California. The totoaba can grow up to 2 meters in length and weigh 140 kilograms (Morrison, Postel and Gleick 1996, 23).

2003, Suzanne Michel, “The Geography of Water Transfers and Urbanization in Baja and Southern California”, in Linda Fernandez, Richard T. Carson, editors, Both Sides of the Border: Transboundary Environmental Management Issues Facing Mexico and the United States, page 210:

In the northern Gulf of California, fishermen report that totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) are being caught illegally around shallow-water hydrothermal vents.

2009, Matthew J. Forrest, Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez, “12: Active Geothermal Springs and Pliocene-Pleistocene Examples”, in Markes E. Johnson, Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez, editors, Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California, page 155:

The marine fish Totoaba macdonaldi, the largest member of the drumfish family Sciaenidae, endemic to the Gulf of California, Mexico.


teraglin

(Australia) any of several ocean fishes in the family Sciaenidae, especially:

Atractoscion aequidens (Geelbeck croaker)

Atractoscion atelodus (small lunate caudal fin croaker)

Otolithes ruber (tigertooth croaker, silver teraglin)


bangamary

She liked bangamary, tilapia, lukanani, and snapper, but the river fish with the dark curved scales—hassar or cascadoo, as the Trinidadians called it—was a delicacy for special occasions.

2008, Godfrey Wray, Beyond Revenge, page 95:

Andrew Doro, a Chinese-American food blogger intent on eating dishes from every nation in the world, without leaving New York City, favors Guyanese Chinese dishes like fried bangamary (a fish) and crispy cha chi gai.

2020 August 18, Richard Morgan, “In This Dinner Series, Chinese Food Is at Home Worldwide”, in The New York Times:


channel bass

Sciaenops ocellatus, a large red edible fish.


spottail bass

The red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a marine fish with a dark spot near the tail.


black drum

Pogonias cromis, one of two species of fish in the genus Pogonias.


freshwater drum

freshwater drum (plural freshwater drums)

Aplodinotus grunniens, a fish endemic to North and Central America.


spotfin croaker

spotfin croaker (plural spotfin croakers)

Roncador stearnsii, a marine ray-finned fish of the family Sciaenidae.