barracouta
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of barracouta
C17: variant of barracuda
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The Maories have quite an original way of catching barracouta.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.
About six feet below the barnacles a cavernous-jawed barracouta, perhaps five feet long, lay motionless but for the easy waving of its fins.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
The barracouta, nearly spent, swam off without even waiting to say 'Thank you.'
From Children of the Wild by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
"But what's a barracouta?" demanded the Babe hurriedly.
From Children of the Wild by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
"Look!" said Tom, as he pointed to a little writhing eel-like shape, about nine inches long, attached to the belly of the barracouta.
From Pieces of Eight by Le Gallienne, Richard
The smaller kinds consisted of bonetas, barracoutas, porpoises, and flying fish.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by King, Phillip Parker
It was little he had to fear from the barracoutas.
From Children of the Wild by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
The gorge, too, was alive with barracoutas and sharks, leaping out of water, or with their stiff triangular fins cutting just above the surface, and sometimes even grazing the blades of the cutter’s oars.
From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)
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