mudcat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   US: any of several catfish associated with muddy water, especially a bullhead or flathead catfish

   The fisherman lifted a broad-headed mudcat from the river shallows.

A compound of mud + cat, with cat used as a shortening of catfish. The name is applied regionally to several bottom-dwelling North American catfish.

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