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ˈdog-fish, dogfish
1. A name given to various small sharks of the families Squalidæ (Spinacidæ), Galeorhinidæ (Carchariidæ), and Scylliidæ, or to the sharks of these families collectively; esp. in Great Britain, the Large and Small Spotted Dogfish (Scyllium catulus, S. canicula), and in New England, the Picked Dogfish (Squalus acanthias).
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 765 Hic canis, a doke⁓fyche. 1530Palsgr. 214/2 Doggefysshe, chien de mer. 1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 33 The Dogfish, a ravenous Fish. 1766Pennant Zool. (1769) III. 77 The picked dogfish takes its name from a strong and sharp spine placed just before each of the back fins. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. i. 108 Dr. Delattre has obtained it [shark-oil] from the..Lesser spotted Dogfish.
b. Applied also to the mud-fish (Amia calva); to the blackfish (Dallia pectoralis); to a kind of wrasse (Crenilabrus caninus); and to the mud-puppy, a batrachian reptile (Necturus maculatus).
1889Farmer Amer., Dog-fish, the mud fish of Western waters.
2. fig. Applied opprobriously to persons.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet B ij b, Whie are not the spawnes of such a dog-fish hangd? 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. iv. 107 Puzel or Pussel, Dolphin or Dog-fish, Your hearts Ile stampe out with my Horses heeles. 1731Swift Pulteney Wks. 1755 IV. i. 167 A pack of dog-fish had him in the wind.
Hence dog-fishing vbl. n., fishing for dog-fish.
1885C. F. Holder Marvels Anim. Life 190 Everybody goes dog-fishing. |