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Meanings of mudcat in English

Portuguese
bagre
Catalan
barb

Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed.

bagre

Large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw.

Synonyms
Examples for "catfish"
Examples for "catfish"
1
The trust had already done work trapping and controlling catfish, she said.
Radio NZ
2
I know about catfish and I don't believe a word of it.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
3
Besides, I doubt if there are any catfish in those Montana rivers.
A Winter Haunting
4
Grandpa skinned the catfish, and Don scraped the scales from the perch.
A Hive of Busy Bees
5
I kept thinking about him as I cleaned the catfish for breakfast.
River girl
Usage of mudcat in English
1
If Old Moses decided to grab their bait, they wouldn't be sitting so calmly waiting for a mudcat.
Boy’s Life
2
Presently he jerked, and a yellow mudcat rose to the surface, fighting desperately for his life, and Dan and Snowball yelled crazily.
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
3
Catch him up in a net, put him in a big glass tank somewhere like an overgrown mudcat. Mr. Sculley frowned and shook his head.
Boy’s Life
4
Hugh McVey left the town of Mudcat Landing in early September of the year eighteen eighty-six.
Poor White: A Novel
5
What's left after the crawdadders and mudcats have their way with that boy will bob up somewheres downriver.
Serena
6
On the Sunday afternoons in the woods south of Mudcat Landing Hugh had lain perfectly still in the grass for hours.
Poor White: A Novel
7
Sarah Shepard did not go to church after she came to Mudcat Landing, but she would have no work done on Sundays.
Poor White: A Novel
8
"It's an old tune by Mudcat Malone," he explained.
Ford county: stories
9
Then he wired to the headquarters of the railroad company telling them to send a man to Mudcat Landing to take his place.
Poor White: A Novel
Translations for mudcat
Portuguese
bagre
Catalan
barb
Mudcat through the time