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Definition: Goby |
GobyNoun1. Small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goby" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
Etymology: Goby \Go"by\, noun; plural Gobies. [French gobie, Latin gobius, gobio, Greek. Compare to Gudgeon.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gobies (image here) Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Gobiidae Genera Many, e.g.
Gobius
PeriophthalmusThe Gobies form the family Gobiidae, the largest family of marine fishes, with over 2000 species. Among the most typical members of the family are the Mudskippers. While fish from several different genera bear this name, most mudskippers are classified in one of two genera, Gobius and Periophthalmus
Periophtalmus barbarus (which has also been known as P. cantonensis and as Gobius barbarus) is a typical mudskipper. This fish is found in tidal areas from Japan to East Indies , India South Pacific Islands, East Africa, and Australia. It usually is about 1 foot long. This fish can jump, walk,skip,and see in the air. It is said that a mudskipper is agile enough to outrun a boy. It has two big bulgy eyes at the top of its head that are very close together. It can control its eyes and one eye can look above water while the other can look under water. This fish has strong muscles and has been reported to have jumped over 20 feet. The fish lives in mudholes and can move about in a root system of a swamp. A pair of these fish will engage in fights if kept together. It is better off in its natural environment it is not suitable for captivity, although they are sometimes kept in aquaria. They are of no value for human food. This fish likes humidity and lives in about a 70-85F.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Goby."
Synonym: GobySynonym: gudgeon (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Goby |
| English words defined with "goby": Gobies, Gobioid ♦ Polewig ♦ Sea gudgeon, sleeper, sleeper goby. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "goby": Old. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an old man. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book. "Old books? The devil take them!" Goby said. "Fresh every day must be my books and bread." Nature herself approves the Goby rule And gives us every moment a fresh fool. Harley Shum |
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| "Goby" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Goby" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "goby": sleeper goby. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "goby": goby-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
goby | 49 | goby peacock | 3 |
bee bumble goby | 22 | neon goby | 3 |
goby round | 17 | goby orange sleeper spotted | 3 |
goby mandarin | 17 | goby watchman yellow | 3 |
goby violet | 11 | catalina goby | 3 |
goby fish | 10 | clown goby green | 3 |
dragon goby | 9 | bar goby | 3 |
goby key | 7 | aquarium goby sand sifting | 3 |
goby knight | 7 | bicolor goby | 2 |
freshwater goby | 6 | boy emulator game goby | 2 |
goby pilot | 6 | goby jade | 2 |
clown goby | 5 | diamond goby | 2 |
goby marble | 5 | shrimp goby | 2 |
watchman goby | 5 | fire goby | 2 |
engineer goby | 4 | goby walnut | 2 |
goby sleeper | 3 | butterfly goby | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "goby"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | القوبيون. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | попче (priestling). (various references) | |
Czech | přehlédnutí (overlook, oversight, revision, slip). (various references) | |
Danish | guldkutling (golden goby), glaskutling (transparent goby), sort kutling (big goby, black goby, black-goby), slangehoved-kutling (grass goby), slangehovedkutling (grass goby), sandkutling (sand goby), Panizzas kutling (lagoon gobie, Panizza's goby), klippekutling (rock goby), kessler's kutling (kessler's goby), Kesslers kutling (bighead goby), kæmpekutling (big goby, giant goby), broget Sortehavs-kutling (mottled Black Sea goby, tubenose gobie, tubenose goby). (various references) | |
Dutch | glasgrondel (transparent goby), goudgrondel (golden goby), goveke (big goby, black goby, black-goby), govie (big goby, black goby, black-goby), grote grondel (big goby, giant goby), Panizzas grondel (lagoon gobie, Panizza's goby), dikkopje (sand goby), Kessler's grondel (bighead goby), Zwartezee-grondel (mottled Black Sea goby, tubenose goby), Panizza's grondel (lagoon gobie, Panizza's goby), rotsgrondel (rock goby), slangekop grondel (grass goby), slangenkopgrondel (grass goby), zwarte grondel (big goby, black goby, black-goby), Zwarte-Zeegrondel (mottled Black Sea goby, tubenose gobie), Kesslers grondel (bighead goby). (various references) | |
Finnish | tokko-laji (bighead goby, lagoon gobie, mottled Black Sea goby, Panizza's goby, tubenose goby), mustatokko (black goby), luototokko (rock goby), levätokko (grass goby), kuultotokko (transparent goby), kultatokko (golden goby), isotokko (giant goby), hietatokko (sand goby). (various references) | |
French | gobie. (various references) | |
German | meergrundel. (various references) | |
Greek | ρετρογωβιός (black goby), γωβιός της Μαύρης Θάλασσας (mottled Black Sea goby, tubenose goby), γωβιός της Μ.Θάλασσας (mottled Black Sea goby, tubenose gobie), γωβιός (bighead goby, black goby, giant goby, grass goby, lagoon gobie, Panizza's goby, rock goby, sand goby), γωβιουδάκι άφια (transparent goby), μαυρογωβιός (black goby), χρυσογωβιός (golden goby). (various references) | |
Italian | ghiozzo testone (big goby, giant goby), ghiozzo paganello (rock goby), ghiozzo nero (big goby, black goby, black-goby), ghiozzo gò (grass goby), ghiozzo dorato (golden goby), ghiozzo di Kessler (bighead goby), ghiozzo del Mar Nero (mottled Black Sea goby, tubenose gobie, tubenose goby), ghiozzetto minuto (sand goby), ghiozzetto di laguna (lagoon gobie, Panizza's goby), rossetto (blusher, lip salve, lipstick, rouge), marsione (sand goby). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鯊 , 沙魚 , ぼ鯊 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はぜ (awax tree), ぼはぜ. (various references) | |
Manx | kione tramman (bullhead, gudgeon). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gobião. (various references) | |
Russian | бычок (steer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glavoč (bullhead). (various references) | |
Spanish | japuta (pomfret). (various references) | |
Swedish | guldbult (golden goby), gräsbult (grass goby), gardastubb (lagoon gobie, Panizza's goby), svartsmörbult (black goby), storhuvudsbult (bighead goby), större smörbult (giant goby), sandstubb (sand goby), marmorsmörbult (mottled Black Sea goby, tubenose goby), klippsmörbult (rock goby), klarbult (transparent goby). (various references) | |
Thai | ปลาบู่. (various references) | |
Turkish | kayabalığı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бичок (beef, chub). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Aphia minuta, Aphya pellucida, Brachyochirus pellucidus, Gobius auratus, Gobius capito, Gobius cobitis, Gobius jozo, Gobius kessleri, Gobius minutus, Gobius niger, Gobius niger jozo, Gobius paganellus, Knipowitschia panizzae, Latrunculus pellucidus, Neogobius kessleri, nonnat, Pomatoschistus minutus, Proterorhinus marmoratus, VE nounat, Zosterisessor ophiocephalus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Goby" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: foby, Galby, g'bye, gebby, gebie, Geobey, Ghobi, Ghotbi, gibby, gibey, giby, Goba, gobby, gobe, Gobey, gobys, gocy, goey, gogy, Goiya, gooky, goty, Gowby, Gowy, goyz, Gubay, Gybi, joby, moby, Ogba. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bogy. | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-o-y" | |
-1 letter: bog, boy, gob, goy, yob. | |
-2 letters: bo, by, go, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-o-y" | |
+1 letter: bogey, boggy, boogy. | |
+2 letters: bogeys, boogey, bygone, cyborg, globby, gobony, goodby. | |
+3 letters: bigotry, biogeny, biology, bodying, bogeyed, bogyism, bogyman, bogymen, boogeys, buoyage, buoying, bygones, cyborgs, goodbye, goodbys, goombay, highboy, ignobly, obeying, pageboy. | |
+4 letters: bodingly, bogeying, bogeyman, bogeymen, bogyisms, boogeyed, boogying, boogyman, boogymen, boringly, bowingly, broguery, bryology, buoyages, dogberry, dogsbody, doughboy, globally, goodbyes, goombays, gorbelly, gorblimy, highboys, lobbygow, lobbying, moneybag, oblongly, pageboys. | |
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