kabeljoun.
/ˈkɑːbəljəʊ/, /ˈkɑːbəljaʊ/, U.S. /ˈkɑbəlˌjoʊ/, /ˈkɑbəlˌjaʊ/, South African English /kʌbəlˈjəʊ/ South African.
A large marine food fish, Johnius hololepidotus, of the family Sciænidæ.
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kabeljou1731
Cape salmon1846
kob1906
salmon bass1929
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 188 At the Cape there are several sorts of the fish call'd Cabeliau.
1838 J. E. Alexander Exped. Discov. Interior Afr. II. iv. 83 We got a great prize in a stranded cabaljao, fifty pounds weight, like a huge salmon.
1906 East London Disp. 26 June The Natal ‘Cap salmon’..proves to be our well-known and very common Kabeljaauw, called for briefness ‘cob’ or ‘kob’.
1912 J. T. Cunningham Reptiles, Amphibia, Fishes 277 The name kabeljaauw [= cod]..in South Africa has been transferred to a fish of a very different species,..the maigre, Sciaena aquila.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 271 Kobeljauw or Kabeljauw.
1930 C. L. Biden Sea-angling Fishes of Cape 109 The kabeljou is often mistaken for the geelbek.
1950 Cape Times 17 Nov. 13/8 Last week-end kobeljouw catches were kept down by the difficulty of casting into the teeth of the wind.
1952 Cape Times 7 Nov. 3/5 Fishing-boats brought home the first few kabbeljou of the season.
1959 Cape Times 16 Nov. 2/5 A..visitor.. landed a 94-pound Kabeljouw in the Klein Rivier lagoon.
1973 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 13 June 102 The species being tagged include grunter and white steenbras, elf (shad), kob (kabeljauw or Cape Salmon in Natal) haarders (mullet) and leervis (garrick).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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