Meaning of cockfish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
2. A person who cockfishes.
   Internet, vulgar
3. A callorhinchid fish, Callorhinchus callorynchus, native to South America.
4. A cyprinid fish, Hypselobarbus dubius, native to India.

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Examples

“Spawning fish⟳ on the redds. A henfish will often be attended by two or three cockfish – whilst displaying ritual combat between themselves, one cock will mate, others may follow⟳ [image caption]”

“Morphology of the main digestive features of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus, is described and linked to feeding habits. […] The diet of the cockfish is compared with that of other holocephalans.”

“Cockfish (sometimes known as catcocks) are loosely related to catfish in that they use⟳ the mystery of the world wide web to misrepresent who they are to potential friends, dates, or even financial donors. However, whereas a catfish will cloak pretty much their whole identity – often with a fake name⟳ and pictures stolen from someone else – the cockfish is only interested in changing the identity of their penis.”

“So while a catfish might misrepresent their entire identity - including even stealing photographs from someone else's profile - a cockfish focuses on one specific body part.”

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