cuttlefish
pronunciation
How to pronounce cuttlefish in British English:
UK [ˈkʌtlfɪʃ]
How to pronounce cuttlefish in American English:
US [ˈkʌtlˌfɪʃ]
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- Noun:
- ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
Word Origin
- cuttlefish
- cuttlefish: [11] The cuttlefish probably gets its name from its resemblance to a bag when its internal shell is removed. Its earliest recorded designation is cudele (the compound cuttlefish does not appear until the 16th century), which is generally taken to be a derivative of the same base as produced cod ‘pouch’ (as in codpiece and peascod). In the 16th century the variant scuttlefish arose, perhaps partly with reference to the creature’s swift movements.=> cod
- cuttlefish (n.)
- Old English cudele "the cuttlefish;" first element perhaps related to Middle Low German küdel "container, pocket;" Old Norse koddi "cushion, testicle;" and Old English codd (see cod).
Example
- 1. For toothpaste I use a mixture of cuttlefish bone and wild fennel seeds .
- 2. Here 's a look at how they responded , from the great apes to the cuttlefish .
- 3. This combination of moulded pork fat and thick white cuttlefish takes some chewing but , served in a good broth of spring onions , is delicious .
- 4. When there is a gap between one 's real and one 's declared aims , one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms , like a cuttlefish spurting out ink .
- 5. But , he concedes that it is possible that the octopuses might have seen finer resolutions of polarized light shift but just didn 't have the same simple , speedy reaction as the cuttlefish .