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Mud cat

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mud⋅cat

  [muhd-kat]
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–noun
flathead catfish.
Also, mud cat.

Origin:
1810–20, Americanism; mud + cat1
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cat·fish   (kāt'fĭsh')   
n.   pl. catfish or cat·fish·es
Any of numerous scaleless, chiefly freshwater fishes of the order Siluriformes, characteristically having whiskerlike barbels extending from the upper jaw. Also called regionally bullhead, mud cat.
mud cat  
n.   Chiefly Southern U.S.
See catfish.
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