Words that rhyme with hogfish

• codfish 0
  n 1: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish] 2: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn: cod, codfish]
• frogfish 0
  n 1: fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout
• pipefish 0
  n 1: fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates [syn: pipefish, needlefish]
• raffish 0
  adj 1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce] 2: marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore [syn: devil-may-care, raffish, rakish]
• ribbonfish 0
  n 1: thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin [syn: oarfish, king of the herring, ribbonfish, Regalecus glesne] 2: marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body
• rockfish 0
  n 1: the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks 2: marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America 3: marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone [syn: striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis, rockfish]
• roughish 0
  adj 1: somewhat rough
• sailfish 0
  n 1: a saltwater fish with lean flesh 2: large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail
• sawfish 0
  n 1: primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout
• selfish 0
  adj 1: concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman [ant: unselfish]
• shellfish 0
  n 1: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) 2: invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell [syn: mollusk, mollusc, shellfish]
• silverfish 0
  n 1: silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing [syn: silverfish, Lepisma saccharina] 2: a silvery variety of Carassius auratus
• spearfish 0
  n 1: any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
• standoffish 0
  adj 1: lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner" [syn: offish, standoffish]
• starfish 0
  n 1: echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk [syn: starfish, sea star]
• stockfish 0
  n 1: fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt
• stonefish 0
  n 1: venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock [syn: stonefish, Synanceja verrucosa]
• swordfish 0
  n 1: flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks 2: large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night [syn: swordfish, Xiphias gladius]
• toadfish 0
  n 1: bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth [syn: toadfish, Opsanus tau]
• triggerfish 0
  n 1: any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
• unselfish 0
  adj 1: disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others [ant: selfish] 2: not greedy
• whitefish 0
  n 1: any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring 2: flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere 3: silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
• wolfish 0
  adj 1: resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity" [syn: wolflike, wolfish] 2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]
• dwarfish 0
  adj 1: atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"
• crawfish 0
  n 1: tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse] 2: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster [syn: crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy] 3: large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish] v 1: make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw]
• globefish 0
  n 1: any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers [syn: puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefish]
• lumpfish 0
  n 1: clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar [syn: lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus]
• redfish 0
  n 1: North Atlantic rockfish [syn: redfish, rosefish, ocean perch] 2: large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico [syn: red drum, channel bass, redfish, Sciaenops ocellatus] 3: male salmon that has recently spawned
• threadfish 0
  n 1: fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins [syn: threadfish, thread-fish, Alectis ciliaris]
• overfish 0

See also hogfish definition and hogfish synonyms