| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. An alternative spelling for "Lumpfish": A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.[Websters]. | |
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Date "COCK-PADLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Note: Cock-padle \Cock"-pad`le\, noun. [Etymology uncertain.]. (references) |
