mudcat

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
noun large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw

From mud + cat.

He was well born, as the saying is, and that’s worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy in our town; and pap he always said it, too, though he warn’t no more quality than a mudcat himself. — Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

catfish

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