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fallfish

[ fawl-fish ]

noun

plural fallfishes, (especially collectively) fallfish.
  1. a large minnow, Semotilus corporalis, of eastern North America.


fallfish

/ ˈɔːˌɪʃ /

noun

  1. a large North American freshwater cyprinid fish, Semotilus corporalis , resembling the chub
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fallfish1

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15; fall + fish
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They come at you as a massive crowd, which, in my case, would consist of ants, mosquitoes, yellow jackets, houseflies, fruit flies, horseflies, spiders, centipedes, cockroaches, moles, mice, shrews, snakes, trout, catfish, sand sharks, walleyes, wasps, rabbits, ticks, lampreys, leeches, ladybugs, beetles, centrarchids, annelids, American shad, Atlantic salmon, honeybees, hornets, Arctic char, Pacific salmon, pike, pickerel, porcupines, caterpillars, butterflies, bluefish, moths, mullet, perch, suckers, fallfish, and bats, not to mention road-killed squirrels, raccoons, pheasants, and deer.

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They are: lake trout, chain pickerel, yellow perch, fallfish and white sucker.

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