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Alteration of crawfish, possibly replacing the second element fish (due to folk-etymology) with dab (“flatfish”).
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Alteration of crawfish, possibly replacing the second element fish (due to folk-etymology) with dab (“flatfish”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.