OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28657

catfish

/ˈkætfɪʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bagre • barbo • filín • juilín • pez gato • siluro
Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
“You don’t see catfish that big anymore, except in Chernobyl […] Nobody fishes there anymore, so the catfish thrive. They’ve gotten really enormous, some even twelve or thirteen fe…
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 28658

catfish

/ˈkætfɪʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
farsante • impostor • perfil falso
Such a false profile.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 28659

catfish

/ˈkætfɪʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
engañar con [un] perfil falso
To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).
Getting catfished is when someone falls for a person online who is not necessarily real. It can involve pictures, phone calls, social media profiles, text messages, e-mails and eve…
[to Abed] You made a profile for a fake dude and lured her into an online relationship. [to Annie] He's catfishing you.