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- [kraw-fish]
- /ˈkrɔˌfɪʃ/
- /ˈkreɪ.fɪʃ/
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- [kraw-fish]
- /ˈkrɔˌfɪʃ/
Definitions of crawfish word
- countable noun crawfish A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish. 3
- abbreviation CRAWFISH crayfish 3
- intransitive verb crawfish to withdraw from a position; back down 3
- abbreviation CRAWFISH crayfish. 1
- verb without object crawfish Informal. to back out or retreat from a position or undertaking. 1
- noun crawfish A freshwater crayfish. 1
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Origin of crawfish
First appearance:
before 1615 One of the 41% oldest English words
1615-25; earlier crafish, cravish, cravis, variant outcomes of Middle French crevice crayfish
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Parts of speech for Crawfish
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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crawfish popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 62% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
crawfish usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for crawfish
noun crawfish
- clam — Clams are a kind of shellfish which can be eaten.
- crustacean — A crustacean is an animal with a hard shell and several pairs of legs, which usually lives in water. Crabs, lobsters, and shrimps are crustaceans.
- mollusk — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- barnacle — Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats.
- snail — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
verb crawfish
- back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
- retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
- withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- backpedal — to press backward on the pedals of a bicycle, as to brake
Antonyms for crawfish
verb crawfish
- stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
Top questions with crawfish
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