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surffish

American  
[surf-fish] / ˈsɜrfˌfɪʃ /

noun

PLURAL

surffish

PLURAL

surffishes

  1. surfperch.

  2. any of several sciaenoid fishes, as Umbrina roncador, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America.

  3. surf smelt.

Etymology

Origin of surffish

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85; surf + fish

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In the summers the Trippes take their 16-year-old daughter, Betty, and three young sons, Charles, John and Edward, to a rambling, grey-shingled house on the ocean's edge at East Hampton, L.I., where Trippe likes to swim and surffish with the boys, exercising hard to work off tension.

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