crawlfish
English
Etymology
Variant of crawfish, apparently influenced by crawl.
Noun
crawlfish (countable and uncountable, plural crawlfish)
- (US, regional) The crayfish.
- 2005, Amita Saxena, Text Book of Crustacea, page 35:
- Crayfish, crawlfish, crawdads, or crabs, as they are locally and variously known, are all more or less cylindrical, and the body and appendages are strongly sclerotized.
- 2019 April 3, “Crawlfish boil [comment]”, in Trip Advisor:
- I usually leave spelling mistakes and typos alone. But I just love your crawlfish. They do crawl! We grew up calling them crawdads or crawdaddies. But not crawldads.
The French word is ecrevisse. I imagine that's where crayfish and crawfish come from. Or crawled from.
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Synonyms
- (freshwater crustaceans): crawdad, crawldad, crawfish, crayfish, mudbug, yabby (Australia)
Translations
crayfish — see crayfish