roach

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  1. noun A freshwater fish (Rutilus rutilus) of northern Europe.
  2. noun Any of various similar or related fishes, such as some North American sunfishes.
  3. noun The cockroach.
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  • Now your Honors both know how a pickerel loves a red roach, and I have no doubt you will remember that he is a fish of a very low forehead and an unlimited appetite. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • At the end of the second day the roach was taken out. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • The little dog saw something move near the fireplace—a roach, a rat, a shadow—and gave chase, yapping excitedly. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 02] - Charm City
  • I suppose when a creepy bug runs across your kitchen counter and it's three inches long (I am not exaggerating) and it looks like a roach and moves like a roach, it helps a lot to tell yourself "Hey, it's only a palmetto bug, calm down!" —  FSF,June2006
  • The roach was a Blatta orientalis , the oriental cockroach, about an inch long and shiny black, commonly found in all the swank houses of Palo Alto. —  7th Heaven by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
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  1. Middle English roche, from Old French roce, roche.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Middle English roche, from Old French roche, rosse, French dial. roche (Middle Latin roche, rochia), a roach, from Middle Dutch roch, a roach (?), skate, Dutch rog, a ray, = Middle Low German roche, ruche, Low German ruche, later G. roche, a roach, ray, thornback, = Swedish rocka, a ray, thornback, = Danish rokke, a ray, = Anglo-Saxon reohhe, reohche, a fish, prob. a roach, Middle English rohʒe, rouhe, rehʒe, reihe, a roach, = Latin rāia (for *ragia), a roach, ray, thornback (later Italian raja = Spanish raya = Portuguese raia = French raie, a skate, later English ray: see ray).
  2. Origin obscure.
  3. See roach, n.
  4. Abbr. for cockroach, assumed to be a compound, from cock + roach: but see cockroach.
 

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