Did you perchance mean blowfish?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Psychrolutes marcidus, a fish that inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of the Australian mainland and Tasmania.
Etymologies
- blob + fish, from its shape. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“With its humanlike face, the blobfish is a creature of nightmares, and who knows what ... fish fighters this week are preparing further assaults on the feared whatever they can do to stop the terrifying ...”
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“Heer iz chokolate blobfish an sum warm hawtchokolat wiff teh colurd marshymellowz, yu rezt naow”
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“Mr Blobby (a fathead, blobfish or Psychrolutidae), pictured here, was "trawled during the NORFANZ expedition at a depth between 1013 m and 1340 m, on the Norfolk Ridge, north-west of New Zealand, June 2003.”
“And while we're at it, this is the sun bear and this is the pygmy marmoset and this is the blobfish.”
“And at the very bottom of some seamounts in the Pacific Ocean can be found the blobfish.”
“Its "cigar" is in fact a parasitic crustacean known as a copepod, but no one knows what the blobfish does with its comical nose.”
“Deep sea trawling leaves blobfish looking sadder than ever (4579)”
“Extinction threat for world's ugliest animal - the blobfish”
“The blobfish, by contrast, is practically all face - a pale, gelatinous deep-sea creature whose large-lipped, sad-sack expression seems to be melting toward the floor.”
“A rather unfortunate-looking but aptly-named blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is threatened with extinction, Xie Yan, the China Country Program Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society, estimates that fewer than 50 South China Tigers are left in the wild, and Lord Howe Island, 800 miles off the coast of Sydney, will soon be darkened as helicopters pour 42 tons of rat poisoning over the tiny island paradise.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blobfish’.
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fish
masked stargazer, puddingwife, garden eel, swollen-headed co..., velvet belly, curious wormfish, gorgeous barb, bumpytail ragged-..., upside down sleeper, crazy fish, white sucker, clown toado and 211 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Elizabeth's Words
milquetoast, systempunkt, brainmite, plimpy, anachronaut, ephemera, bioephemera, blimp, zeppelin, dirigible, snafu, zeitgeist and 73 more...
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milquetoast, systempunkt, brainmite, brainmeat, plimpy, anachronaut, ephemera, bioephemera, blimp, zeppelin, dirigible, snafu and 65 more...
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things that freak me out (animals)
( _mark, personal list )
mexican mole lizard, peafoul, verreaux's sifaka, seapig, basket star, blobfish, proboscis monkey, hairy frog, cobra, alpaca, salamander, silkie
Tweets
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Prolagus Aww. Jan 25, 2010
sionnach plush cuddly blobfish
completely awesome knitted blobfish Oct 12, 2009
reesetee Isn't this guy on one of trivet's lists? *rummages through Wordie* Oct 1, 2009
whichbe Blobfish Oct 1, 2009