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US
/ˈdʒuˌfɪʃ/
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NOUN
- large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales
- large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre
How To Use jewfish In A Sentence
- Order now before today's pussified, PADI-preaching prattlers warp you into taking "living reef eco-tours" when, instead, you could be going 30 fathoms deep and power-heading jewfish between the eyes. Hell Divers' Rodeo
- He appears just as I'm about to start on a roasted jewfish with prawns, and offers a sturdy paw.
- There have also been some good jewfish and tailor taken from the headlands and breakwalls.
- Hunted nearly to extinction, the shy, greenish-grey jewfish made a comeback in these waters when laws to protect them were passed in 1990.
- There have been good reports of tailor from Ballina's north wall and Patches Beach, and at least three large jewfish from the north wall.
- I saw one angler take three big jewfish all on his homemade lures.
- A mock radio jingle for the species of grouper formerly known as the "jewfish," containing the line: "Close your eyes and try to picture a great big friendly jewfish -- that is unless you're Jewish. Scrutinizing Hate Monger Glen Beck; "close-to-painful murdering of the dark people."
- Schools of pelagics patrol the pinnacle - devilfish, samson, amberjacks, jewfish, trevally, mackerel and bullseyes, as well as black cod, spangled emperor and snapper.
- Then up comes a great jewfish, which is just as likely to weigh five hundred pounds as fifty, and to be as large as a good-sized Shetland pony, and he makes a lunge for your bait, and -- Around the World in Ten Days
- A jewfish, six feet long and easily three hundred pounds, his blotchy hide mimicking the sun-dappled rock, pouting lower lip thick as Anna's wrist, lay without moving beneath an overhang of a coral-covered rock less than half his size, his wee fish brain assuring him he was hidden. Excerpt: Flashback by Nevada Barr