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craw·fish
[kraw-fish] noun, plural (especially collectively) craw·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) craw·fish·es, verb noun
verb (used without object)
2.
Informal. to back out or retreat from a position or undertaking.
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Origin:
1615–25; earlier crafish, cravish, cravis, variant outcomes of Middle French crevice crayfish
1615–25; earlier crafish, cravish, cravis, variant outcomes of Middle French crevice crayfish
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Word Origin & History
crawfish
1624, generally dismissed by British etymologists as a 19c. Amer.Eng. variant of crayfish (q.v.), but it apparently existed in M.E.
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