muttonfish

muttonfish

English

Etymology

From mutton +‎ fish.

Pronunciation

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Noun

muttonfish (plural muttonfish or muttonfishes)

  1. (chiefly US) Any of several Atlantic and Caribbean fishes which are said to taste of mutton, especially a mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis), an ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus), or an Irish pompano (Diapterus auratus). [from 18th c.]
  2. (Australia) Any of several edible molluscs of the genus Haliotis; an abalone. [from 19th c.]
    • 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 28:
      Some mornings when the tide was right out we went onto the reef with screwdrivers to prise off abalone, which we called muttonfish.

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