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Definition: Crawfish |
CrawfishNoun1. Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly. 2. Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster. 3. Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters. Verb1. Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crawfish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | Deceit is sure to assail you in your affairs of the heart, if you are young, after dreaming of this backward-going thing. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: CrawfishSynonyms: crawdad (n), crawdaddy (n), crayfish (n), ecrevisse (n), langouste (n), rock lobster (n), sea crawfish (n), spiny lobster (n), back away (v), back out (v), crawfish out (v), pull back (v), pull in one's horns (v), retreat (v), withdraw (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regression | Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy. |
Tergiversation | Turn coat, turn tippet; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist. |
Apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind; (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish, crawl. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crawfish |
| English words defined with "crawfish": back away, back out ♦ crawfish out, Crevis ♦ pull back, pull in one's horns ♦ retreat ♦ Stone crawfish ♦ withdraw. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crawfish": Misnomers. (references) |
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Screenplays | The only thing better than a crawfish dinner, is five crawfish dinners (The Waterboy; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler) | |
Lyrics | You better suck the head on them there crawfish (Shake Ya Ass; performing artist: Mystikal) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A crawfish burrow in a bog. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. These dark-colored white ibis chicks will not get their adult plumage for two years. Their parents feed them crawfish from freshwater wetlands, when available. As juveniles and adults, they feed mostly on fiddler crabs. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Child holds Crawfish from the Siuslaw River. Credit: D. Smurthwaite. |  | Fisherman with crawfish, Key West, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Conch shells and crawfish, Key West, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fishing for crawfish, Opelousas, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Bahamas | Crawfish exports, which accounted for 96.2 percent of the sales volume, rose in value by 21 percent to $86.6 million, to over 95 percent of total earnings at present. (references) |
Political Economy | FRANCE | For instance, French decrees and regulations currently prohibit the import of the following agricultural products: poultry, meat and egg products from countries (including the United States) that use certain feed compounds; products made with enriched flour; exotic meats (e.g., ostrich, emu and alligator); and live crawfish unless authorized by special agreement. (references) |
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| "Crawfish" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Crawfish" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crawfish": crawfish out ♦ sea crawfish ♦ stone crawfish. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crawfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | karavidhe (crayfish, lobster). (various references) | |
Arabic | المتراجع عن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид рак (crayfish). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小龙虾 (Crayfish). (various references) | |
Czech | ryba (cow-fish, fish, garfish, goldfish, grouper, gurnard, hake, loach, saury, shad). (various references) | |
Danish | krebs (crayfish), flodkrebs (crayfish, freshwater crayfish), almindelig krebs (crayfish). (various references) | |
Dutch | zoetwaterkreeft (crayfish), rivierkreeft (crayfish). (various references) | |
Farsi | خرچنگ خاردار, خرچنگ اب شیرین , ازموضعی عقب نشینی کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | rapu (crayfish). (various references) | |
French | écrevisse (crayfish). (various references) | |
German | Bachkrebs. (various references) | |
Greek | ποταμοκαραβίδα (crayfish). (various references) | |
Hebrew | סרטן " "רות (crayfish). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rák (cancer, crayfish, hard-shell), folyami rák (crayfish, fresh-water crayfish). (various references) | |
Italian | gambero di fiume europeo (crayfish), gambero di fiume (crayfish). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 川蝦 , アメーバ赤痢 (AMeDAS, amenity, American, American casual, American coffee, American football, American Indian, American League, American plan, American rugby, American sign language, Americanism, Americanize, America's Cup race, Ameslan, amethyst, amoebic dysentery, Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System, dogwood, puma, redwood). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かわえび, アメリカザリガニ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awfishcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caranguejo (crab, crayfish), recuar (backpedal, blench, boggle, flinch, flunk, indent, kick, off, quail, recede, recoil, retire, retreat), lagostim do rio (crayfish). (various references) | |
Russian | рак (cancer, carcinoma, crab, crayfish, lobster), лангуст (crayfish, spiny lobster). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rak (cancer, canker, carcinoma, clam, crayfish). (various references) | |
Spanish | cangrejo de río de patas rojas (crayfish), cangrejo de río (crayfish), dibujar al pastel. (various references) | |
Swedish | kräfta (cancer, canker, crayfish). (various references) | |
Turkish | kerevides (crayfish), istakozdan küçük böcek (crayfish). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ухилятися (avoid, back out, balk, blench, depart, digress, dodge, elude, equivocate, eschew, evade, flunk, jink, obviate, prevaricate, shirk, shuffle, sidestep, squirm, weasel, weave, wriggle), рак (cancer, crayfish), відступати (back, back down, backtrack, blench, deviate, digress, draw back, draw off, drop back, ebb, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, recede, retreat, retrograde, shy, stand away, stand back, walk backward), задкувати як рак. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Astacus astacus(Linnaeus,1758). (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crawfish": crawfished, crawfishes, crawfishing. (additional references) | |
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"Crawfish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carwfish, crowish, krautish, Krawisz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crawfish" (pronounced krô"fi'sh) |
| 3 | -f i' sh | Angelfish, catfish, cuttlefish, dealfish, dogfish, flatfish, goldfish, goosefish, hagfish, jellyfish, jewfish, lungfish, needlefish, pipefish, redfish, sailfish, selfish, shellfish, starfish, sunfish, swordfish, whitefish. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-h-i-r-s-w" | |
-2 letters: chairs, rachis, rawish, sharif, wharfs. | |
-3 letters: chair, chars, chaws, chias, crash, craws, fairs, farci, fiars, hafis, hairs, scarf, schwa, swarf, waifs, wairs, wharf, whirs, wisha. | |
-4 letters: airs, arch, arcs, arfs, asci, cars, cash, caws, char, chaw, chia, chis, craw, cris, fair, fash, fiar, firs, fisc, fish, hair, haws, ichs, rash, raws, rias, rich. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-h-i-r-s-w" | |
+2 letters: crawfished, crawfishes. | |
+3 letters: crawfishing, witchcrafts. | |
+5 letters: flowchartings. | |
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