catfish
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Etymology 1[edit]
From cat + fish. Likely so named for its prominent barbels like a cat's whiskers.
Noun[edit]
catfish (countable and uncountable, plural catfish or catfishes)
- Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth
- Synonyms: (Africa) catlet, sheat, sheatfish, river chicken
- The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
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Translations[edit]
type of fish — See also translations at sheatfish
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Verb[edit]
catfish (third-person singular simple present catfishes, present participle catfishing, simple past and past participle catfished)
- To fish for catfish.
- I only use this rod for catfishing.
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Etymology 2[edit]
From the 2010 documentary Catfish, supposedly inspired by the practice of fishermen keeping cod active by storing them with catfish (see sense 1) which nip at their tails.
Noun[edit]
catfish (plural catfishes)
- (Internet) Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
- (Internet) Such a fake profile.
Translations[edit]
person operating fake profile
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fake profile
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Verb[edit]
catfish (third-person singular simple present catfishes, present participle catfishing, simple past and past participle catfished)
- (Internet, slang, transitive) To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).
- 2013 January 17, Mary Pilon, “In Te’o Story, Deception Ripped From the Screen”, in The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
- Getting catfished is when someone falls for a person online who is not necessarily real. It can involve pictures, phone calls, social media profiles, text messages, e-mails and even phony friends or family members.
- 2014 January 16, Cooperative Polygraphy (Community), season 5, episode 4, NBC, spoken by Troy (Donald Glover), 12:17 from the start:
- [to Abed] You made a profile for a fake dude and lured her into an online relationship. [to Annie] He's catfishing you.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:catfish.
Translations[edit]
operate fake profile
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Further reading[edit]
- catfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- catfishing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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