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ˈgold-fish, goldfish
†a. A fish with golden markings found in the South Seas (obs.).
b. A small golden-red fish (Cyprinus auratus) of the carp family, a native of China, commonly bred and kept for ornament in tanks, glass globes, etc. (see quot. 1802). gold-fish bowl, (a) a bowl, usually a glass globe, in which gold-fish are kept (cf. globe n. 6 b); (b) something resembling such a bowl; spec. a place or situation affording no privacy (see also quot. 1942).
c. = Garibaldi 2.
1698Froger Voy. 45 The Gold-Fish and the Bonite continually make War with them in the Water. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 342 The Gold Fish is very beautiful. 1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 192 The Cape-Gold-Fish is about a Foot and a Half long. 1791W. Bartram Carolina 44 The gold-fish is about the size of the anchovy. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 86 Gold Fish are natives of China..They were first introduced into England about the year 1691. 1873B. Stewart Conserv. Force i. 8 A glass globe containing numerous goldfish. [1904‘Saki’ Reginald 115, I might have been a gold⁓fish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got.] 1935M. Sullivan Our Times VI. viii. 150 The situation was the more trying because it was as plain to the newspapers as to Harding and Daugherty—their relations for several months were carried on in a goldfish bowl. 1941J. P. Marquand H. M. Pulham, Esq. xxxi. 304 She was..telling Mrs. Jones.. not to let the maid pick up the broken pieces of the goldfish bowl. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §466/11 Gold-fish bowl, the room in which the third degree is administered. 1951Sat. Even. Post 22 Dec. 44/4 The towermen in their elevated air⁓conditioned goldfish bowls. 1958R. Stow To Islands viii. 158 It's certainly not going to be easy for us, the white people. Living in a goldfish bowl is the last thing we'd do for fun. 1965Listener 20 May 730/1 The White House has always been a goldfish bowl, but under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson it has become an educational theatre as well. 1966J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) iv. 148 They served excellent beer in glasses the size of goldfish bowls. 1969Guardian 26 Mar. 2/2 President Nixon..disclosed his belief that progress towards a Vietnam settlement would come only through private talks... Serious negotiations could not take place in a goldfish bowl, he said. |