Meanings
noungibfish (plural gibfish)
- UKdialectalA male salmon.
In Northumberland the male [salmon] is called a summercock, or gibfish
1885, Edward Hamilton, Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling1 more example
When a gib fish has found a stream that he likes , he makes a hole as a swine works in the ground with his nose , his mouth being nailed with the gib in its socket
1834, Thomas Medwin, The Angler in Wales: Or, Days and Nights of Sportsmen
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