garfish

American  

[gahr-fish] / ˈgɑrˌfɪʃ /

noun

garfish, plural garfishes plural

1. gar.

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garfish British  

/ ˈɡɑːˌfɪʃ /

noun

1. another name for garpike

2. an elongated European marine teleost fish, Belone belone, with long toothed jaws: related to the flying fishes

3. any of various marine or estuarine fish with a long needle-like lower jaw

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• garfish
  plural
• garfishes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of garfish

1400–50; late Middle English; compare Old English gār spear

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

garfish garfishes

Tinned fish at the shop runs anywhere from $8 for Ati Manel garfish, a needle-like fish offred in olive oil from Portugal, to $36 for Conservas de Cambados ‘Sea Urchin Caviar’ from Spain’s Galician estuaries.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

So when he hawked a bloody loogie, spit it into the swampy water and a garfish leaped up and ate it, I decided I had had enough.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

I was hooked on SecondLine Arts and Antiques the moment I spotted the necklace of raccoon vertebrae and beaded garfish scales.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2019

For flavor I’d heard it’s a star fish, So I thought I might try cooking garfish.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2015

They looked like garfish or brilliant white light.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

Of the garfishes we have four species known to be found on our coasts.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis