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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