muttonfish

[muht-n-fish]

mut·ton·fish

[muht-n-fish]
noun, plural (especially collectively) mut·ton·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) mut·ton·fish·es.

Origin:
1725–35, Americanism; mutton1 + fish, so called for its muttonlike taste
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Muttonfish is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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muttonfish

noun
similar to and often marketed as 'red snapper'; [syn: mutton snapper
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