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crawlfish en · NOUN

Etymology

Variant of crawfish, apparently influenced by crawl.

Meanings

1. (US, countable, regional, uncountable) The crayfish.
   • Crayfish, crawlfish, crawdads, or crabs, as they are locally and variously known, are all more or less cylindrical, and the body and appendages are strongly sclerotized. 2005, Amita Saxena, Text Book of Crustacea, page 35:
   • I usually leave spelling mistakes and typos alone. But I just love your crawlfish. They do crawl! We grew up calling them crawdads or crawdaddies. But not crawldads. The French word is ecrevisse. I imagine that's where crayfish and crawfish come from. Or crawled from. 2019 April 3, “Crawlfish boil [comment]”, in Trip Advisor:

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Synonyms

crawldad (freshwater crustaceans) · mudbug (freshwater crustaceans) · crawdad (freshwater crustaceans) · yabby (freshwater crustaceans) · crawfish (freshwater crustaceans) · crayfish (freshwater crustaceans)