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Etymology

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Variant of crawfish, apparently influenced by crawl.

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crawlfish (countable and uncountable, plural crawlfish)

  1. (US, regional) The crayfish.
    • 2005, Amita Saxena, Text Book of Crustacea[1], page 35:
      Crayfish, crawlfish, crawdads, or crabs, as they are locally and variously known, are all more or less cylindrical, and the body and appendages are strongly sclerotized.
    • 2019 April 3, “Crawlfish boil [comment]”, in Trip Advisor[2]:
      I usually leave spelling mistakes and typos alone. But I just love your crawlfish. They do crawl! We grew up calling them crawdads or crawdaddies. But not crawldads.
      The French word is ecrevisse. I imagine that's where crayfish and crawfish come from. Or crawled from.

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