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Definition of Mudcat

1. Noun. Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed.

2. Noun. Large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw.

Definition of Mudcat

1. a type of catfish [n -S] - See also: catfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mudcat

mudang mudangs mudar mudarin mudbank mudbanks mudbath mudbaths mudbrick mudbug

mudbugs mudcap mudcapped mudcapping mudcaps mudcat (current term) mudcats mudded mudder mudders

muddied muddier muddies muddiest muddily muddiness muddinesses mudding muddle

Literary usage of Mudcat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1895)
"This hitherto somewhat despised fish has of late years come into great demand for the American markets, and the mudcat fisheries have in many localities ..."

2. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1895)
"This hitherto somewhat despised fish has of late years come into great demand for the American markets, and the mudcat fisheries have in many localities ..."

3. A Winter of Content by Laura Lee Davidson (1922)
"CHAPTER XVII THE mudcat season has come. After the winter's diet of salt herring, and before the open season for bass and pickerel, comes the mudcat, ..."

4. A Winter of Content by Laura Lee Davidson (1922)
"CHAPTER XVII THE mudcat season has come. After the winter's diet of salt herring, and before the open season for bass and pickerel, comes the mudcat, ..."

5. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Richard Ellsworth Call (1899)
"Tail with 20 rays. This fish can live very long out of water, and is sometimes alive 24 hours after having been taken. XXIII Genus. mudcat. ..."

6. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Richard Ellsworth Call (1899)
"Tail with 20 rays. This fish can live very long out of water, and is sometimes alive 24 hours after having been taken. XXIII Genus. mudcat. ..."

7. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"And while it is a fact that John Jones did fish a little on Sunday, once, he didn't really catch anything but only just one small useless mudcat; and maybe ..."

8. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"... would have been a lizard; if he had been born a fish, would have been a mudcat; and, if a man, a li- beler." To the use of which language the defendant, ..."

9. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1898)
"... differing entirely from the above, or designating other species of the catfish or Siluri- dae class. One of these species, the mudcat, is called ..."

10. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"And while it is a fact that John Jones did fish a little on Sunday, once, he didn't really catch anything but only just one small useless mudcat; and maybe ..."

11. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"... would have been a lizard; if he had been born a fish, would have been a mudcat; and, if a man, a li- beler." To the use of which language the defendant, ..."

12. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1898)
"... differing entirely from the above, or designating other species of the catfish or Siluri- dae class. One of these species, the mudcat, is called ..."

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