sharkdom

sharkdom

English

Etymology

shark +‎ -dom

Noun

sharkdom (uncountable)

1. The state of being a shark, or of belonging to the world of sharks; sharks, collectively.
   • 1868, Isabelle Saxon, Five years within the Golden gate, page 215:

     Having once tasted blood, sharkdom, like despotism, kept a look-out for victims to devour by "right divine" in any unhappy waifs or strays of humanity daring enough to venture into the water.

   • 1998, Philip Z. Trupp, Sea of Dreamers: Travels with Famous Ocean Explorers, page 166:

     How strange to discover the only novel to be Peter Benchley's outrageous tale of demonic sharkdom, Jaws.

   • 2001, Thomas B. Allen, Shark Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance, page 5:

     McHenry had been pilloried as an enemy of sharkdom after he had caught four large great whites at the Farallons in a single day in 1982.

Related terms

• fishdom