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- noun Plural form of
mudcat .
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Examples
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It's mighty pleasant ketchin 'mudcats fer yer dinners.
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There were not many fish in that part of the Miami; my boy's experience was full of the ignominy of catching shiners and suckers, or, at the best, mudcats, as they called the yellow catfish; but there were boys, of those who cursed and swore, who caught sunfish, as they called the bream; and there were men who were reputed to catch at will, as it were, silvercats and river-bass.
Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells William Dean Howells 1878
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That's, of course, because mudcats are the real bottom feeders, and there ain't no tellin 'what they been eatin'.
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