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ˈsunfish, v. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.)
[f. the n.]
intr. To act like a sun-fish, spec. of a ‘bucking’ horse (see quot. 1888). Also transf.
1888Roosevelt in Century Mag. Apr. 854/2 He may buck steadily in one place, or ‘sunfish’,—that is, bring first one shoulder down almost to the ground and then the other. 1923Century Mag. CVI. 831/2 Down across Texas it went sunfishin', back-flippin', side-windin'... The Staked Plains used to be heavily timbered until that big wind swiped the trees off. 1971A. P. McInnes Dunlevy 86 Sometimes the mare sunfished, but the girl stuck solidly. 1979D. Anthony Long Hard Cure xxv. 195 He'd ducked..and gone to one knee, sunfishing a little. His right arm moved..and his pistol boomed loud.
Hence ˈsunfisher, a horse that sunfishes; ˈsunfishing ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1913in Dialect Notes IV. 28 Sunfisher. 1923N.Y. Times 16 Aug. 10/1 As Yak went by the sun-fishing longhorn sort o' sheered. 1924W. M. Raine Troubled Waters v. 47 Rocking chair [an outlaw horse]..was a noted fence rower, weaver, and sunfisher. Ibid. 52 Neither sidebucking nor pitching, sunfishing nor weaving could shake the lean-loined, broad-shouldered figure from his seat. 1961R. F. Adams Old-time Cowhand 298 A ‘sunfisher’ was a hoss that twisted his body into a crescent, or, in other words, when he seemed to try to touch the ground with first one shoulder and then the other, lettin' the sunlight hit his belly. 1967Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 12 Feb. 3/1 In the flash of a second, he'd switched from ‘sunfishing’ to ‘corkscrewing’. |