jewfish
IPA: dʒˈufɪʃ
noun
- Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
- Epinephelus itajara (Atlantic goliath grouper, spotted jewfish)
- Johnius australis (bottlenose jewfish)
- Lateolabrax japonicus (Japanese seabass)
- Argyrosomus japonicus (silver jewfish, also known as the mulloway jewfish in eastern Australia)
- Argyrosomus regius (meagre)
- Tandanus tandanus (eel-tailed catfish, freshwater jewfish, dewfish)
- Glaucosoma hebraicum (West Australian dhufish, Westralian jewfish, western jewfish)
- Glaucosoma buergeri (Westralian jewfish)
- Stereolepis gigas (black jewfish, Pacific jewfish)
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Examples of "jewfish" in Sentences
- Some have suggested it was a goliath grouper formerly known as jewfish.
- Maybe we could have one on and one year off if the Jewfish is threatened again.
- Then up comes a great jewfish, which is just as likely to weigh five hundred pounds as fifty, and to be as large as a good-sized Shetland pony, and he makes a lunge for your bait, and --
- Thus instantly turning it from what was useful information to meaningless political propaganda suitable only for wrapping the jewfish we powerheaded 25 fathoms below the oilrig this morning.
- A mock radio jingle for the species of grouper formerly known as the "jewfish," containing the line: "Close your eyes and try to picture a great big friendly jewfish -- that is unless you're Jewish.
- Order now before today's pussified, PADI-preaching prattlers warp you into taking "living reef eco-tours" when, instead, you could be going 30 fathoms deep and power-heading jewfish between the eyes.
- We moved around the rest of the morning, catching hardhead catfish (which Willcox unhooked with a long disgorger, to avoid the venomous spines in its dorsal and pectoral fins) and even a young goliath grouper, or jewfish (a protected species).
- The Yellow Sea has marked seasonal variations and supports both cold temperate species (eel-pout, cod, flatfish, Pacific herring) and warm water species (skates, gurnard, jewfish, small yellow croaker, spotted sardine, fleshy prawn, southern rough shrimp).
- A jewfish, six feet long and easily three hundred pounds, his blotchy hide mimicking the sun-dappled rock, pouting lower lip thick as Anna's wrist, lay without moving beneath an overhang of a coral-covered rock less than half his size, his wee fish brain assuring him he was hidden.