catfish

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth. countable,uncountable
    — “You don’t see catfish that big anymore, except in Chernobyl […] Nobody fishes there anymore, so the catfish thrive. They’ve gotten really enormous, some even twelve or thirteen feet long. They’re bottom-feeders, and apparently the mud still contains a lot of radioactive particles, but the catfish don’t seem to mind.”
  2. Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people. Internet
    — Real people in a picture that was used by a catfish to create a fake identity could have a claim because their likeness was used without permission, Shear said.
  3. The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe. countable,uncountable
  4. Such a false profile. Internet
动词 v.
  1. To fish for catfish. intransitive
    — I only use this rod for catfishing.
  2. To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone). Internet,slang,transitive
    — Getting catfished is when someone falls for a person online who is not necessarily real. It can involve pictures, phone calls, social media profiles, text messages, e-mails and even phony friends or family members.

词形变化

catfish plural catfishes plural catfishes present,singular,third-person catfishing participle,present catfished participle,past catfished past catfish plural catfishes plural catfishes present,singular,third-person catfishing participle,present catfished participle,past catfished past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From cat + fish. Likely so named for its prominent barbels like a cat's whiskers. Compare West Frisian katfisk (“catfish”), Dutch katvis (“catfish”). Compare also German Seekatze (“catfish”, literally “sea-cat”).
词源 2
From the 2010 documentary Catfish, supposedly inspired by the practice of fishermen keeping cod active by storing them with catfish (see sense 1) which nip at their tails.
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