crappie
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom French crapet-soleil (“sunfish”).
Noun
editcrappie (plural crappies or crappie)
- A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus Pomoxis. Both are silvery-white with black speckles, and prized as gamefish.
- 2008 December 18, Gene Mueller, “More and more stripers making their way up Bay”, in Washington Times[1]:
- If it's crappies you like, they're biting in 45-degree water.