sharkdom
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Etymology edit
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sharkdom (uncountable)
- The state of being a shark, or of belonging to the world of sharks; sharks, collectively.
- 1868, Isabelle Saxon, Five years within the Golden gate, page 215:
- Having once tasted blood, sharkdom, like despotism, kept a look-out for victims to devour by "right divine" in any unhappy waifs or strays of humanity daring enough to venture into the water.
- 1998, Philip Z. Trupp, Sea of Dreamers: Travels with Famous Ocean Explorers, page 166:
- How strange to discover the only novel to be Peter Benchley's outrageous tale of demonic sharkdom, Jaws.
- 2001, Thomas B. Allen, Shark Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance, page 5:
- McHenry had been pilloried as an enemy of sharkdom after he had caught four large great whites at the Farallons in a single day in 1982.