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talking catfish en · NOUN
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Any of the catfishes of the family Doradidae, able to produce sound by moving their pectoral spine or vibrating their swim bladder.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talking, catfish.
In one of the few unexpected moments in the film, she then consummates her newfound freedom in a brief but apparently satisfying cross-species love affair with a talking catfish.
2012 March 12, Angela O'Hara, “Mysterious Object of Desire: The Haunted Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul”, in Philippa Gates, Lisa Funnell, editors, Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas: The Reel Asian Exchange (Routledge Advances in Film Studies), Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:It involves a princess despondent over her looks who is literally seduced by a talking catfish.
2017, Jim VandenBosch, ““Heaven Is Overrated”: Two Movies That Posit Life Beyond Death”, in The Gerontologist, volume 57, number 5, Oxford University Press US, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 998–1000:
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