Definitions for dogfish

dogfish dog·fish

Spelling: [dawg-fish, dog-]
IPA: /ˈdɔgˌfɪʃ, ˈdɒg-/

Dogfish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in dogfish (dfghios).

Definitions for dogfish

noun

  1. any of several small sharks, especially of the genera Mustelus and Squalus, that are destructive to food fishes.
  2. any of various other fishes, as the bowfin.

Origin of dogfish

1425-75; earlier dokefyche; late Middle English. See dog, fish

Examples for dogfish

I wouldn't undertake to trot a dogfish on my knee or sing him to sleep with a pennyr'yal hymn, Captain Candage.

It was like a dogfish and a mackerel––the Henry just eat her up.

Chiloscyllium modestum is the dogfish of the Australian fishermen.

The general form of these bars at an early stage of development is shewn in the dogfish (Scyllium) in fig. 329.

When the dogfish came the men pulled up their anchors and rowed a mile or so away, for where the dogfish pursues all others fly.

And we hadn't more'n got our lines over the side than we struck into a school of dogfish.

The eating of skate accounts for large families, and a dogfish secures an heir male, if eaten in the month of May.

All through July the Tarpaulin Islanders had been troubled with dogfish.

Were they huge gulls or windbags, cormorants or cranes, devils or dogfish?

They wuz sorted in th' big river but the drive was fouled in the dogfish.

Word Value for dogfish
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

Similar words for dogfish
Word of the day