Meanings
- UScountableregionaluncountableThe 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 351 more example
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 AdvisorSynonyms: crawdad, crawldad, crawfish, crayfish, mudbug, yabby
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Variant of crawfish, apparently influenced by crawl.
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