Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several fishes of the family Gobiidae, especially of the genus Periophthalmus, that are found along the western coast of tropical Africa and in the Indo-Pacific region and are able to survive out of water and maneuver on land.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various gobies of the subfamily Oxudercinae that are able to survive out of water by breathing through their skins and having strong pectoral fins that act as simple legs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins
Examples
“But in reading this account, weren’t you struck by how cavalierly the news agency threw out the term mudskipper?”
“If you’re lucky, you may see a fish called the mudskipper climbing on the roots, using its tail and fins as a makeshift set of legs.”
Simon & Schuster: The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
“A better example than the mudskipper would be the coelacanths, or lobe-fin fish which, along with lungfish, diverged about the same time as tetrapods (as supported by genetic evidence).”
“But if he's a fish out of water, then Baker is something of a mudskipper, a fish that also walks on land.”
The Washington Post: Aspiring opera singer finds racial harmony at Suitland High
“Hey Henry, is what a mudskipper walks on a fin or a foot?”
“Her mouth opened and closed like a mudskipper as she bleated confusedly, Lord Mountrachet?”
“They usually lose these kinds of challenges to a marathoner, to a parkour..er, to a mudskipper, and the way their frustration mixes with genuine admiration is part of the fun.”
“The recent Guinness commercial with the Neandertals, dinosaurs, and the little mudskipper was much better.”
“I suddenly felt, well, terribly old as I watched a mudskipper hopping along with what now seemed to me like a wonderful sense of hopeless, boundless, naive optimism.”
“There's one fish that existed about 350 million years ago which was very like a mudskipper.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mudskipper’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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It's a Fish
kelpfish, fatfin, dollarfish, barrelfish, palometa, poppy-fish, ballan-wrasse, sweetlips, bichir, finpike, bergall, cunner and 192 more...
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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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millette's list
Inventicons and other made up words.
inventicon, confelicity, confelicity, aleatory, psychopomp, milquetoast, zeptosecond, whiffletree, mudskipper, frogmarch, mooreeffoc
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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Best beasts
agouti, doodlebug, colugo, yeti crab, gribble, unau, kudu, basenji, boomslang, triantelope, acouchy, hallucigenia and 75 more...
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M is for Miss Scarlet
My M Words
macaroni, mad hatter, madcap, malarkey, margarita, marmalade, maverick, mekka-lekka hi me..., minx, miss scarlet, mister, mister splashy pants and 80 more...
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words The Ren & Stimpy Show taught me
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mudskipper.
hernesheir It's a fish. Jan 2, 2012