Definitions for goldfish

goldfish gold·fish

Spelling: [gohld-fish]
IPA: /ˈgoʊldˌfɪʃ/

Goldfish is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in goldfish (dfghilos).

Definitions for goldfish

noun

  1. a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
  2. garibaldi (def 2).

Origin of goldfish

First recorded in 1690-1700; gold + fish

Examples for goldfish

To be sure, she had asked him not to use the water from the goldfish globe; but he just would.

He found a manager who was buying a package of goldfish crackers and pulled the pellet gun on him.

I guess he always did look like a goldfish, but I mean even more like, then.

I got to bring my kids to set every day and they got goldfish crumbs in the Oval Office carpet.

It is all true—my dream, and what I saw myself do in the bowl of goldfish.

Kitty threw a crust to the goldfish and watched them swirl about it greedily.

They include “The goldfish Pool at Chartwell” painted in 1932 and “The Harbour, Cannes,” painted circa 1933.

She told Harry that she did not want to live in the goldfish bowl of Royal family life.

And in item 6c I get to list my dependents—three children, four dogs, six laying hens, two goldfish, and a hamster.

We don't need mercury any more than a goldfish needs a gas-mask.

Word Value for goldfish
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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