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- [rok-fish]
- /ˈrɒkˌfɪʃ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [rok-fish]
- /ˈrɒkˌfɪʃ/
Definitions of rockfish word
- noun plural rockfish any of various fishes found about rocks. 1
- noun plural rockfish striped bass. 1
- noun plural rockfish any of the North Pacific and Atlantic marine fishes of the genus Sebastes. 1
- noun plural rockfish scorpionfish. 1
- noun rockfish any of various fishes that live among rocks, esp scorpaenid fishes of the genus Sebastodes and related genera, such as S. caurinus (copper rockfish) of North American Pacific coastal waters 0
- noun rockfish any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish 0
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Origin of rockfish
First appearance:
before 1590 One of the 37% oldest English words
First recorded in 1590-1600; rock1 + fish
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Rockfish
noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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rockfish popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 53% 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".
rockfish usage trend in Literature
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