halibut
Valid in Scrabble
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- 12
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- 14
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Definition of halibut
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.
“[...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut.”
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Etymology
From Middle English *halibutt, equivalent to holy + but (“flatfish”), since the fish was often eaten on holy days. Cognate with Dutch heilbot, German Heiligbutt, Heilbutt, Heilbutte, Danish helleflynder, Swedish helgeflundra, and Norwegian Nynorsk hellefisk.
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