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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