Noun: halibut
| Singular | halibut |
| Plural | halibuts; halibut |
Sample Sentences
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[...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut. [1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:]
Nouns inflected like halibut
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English halibut, equivalent to holy + butt (“flatfish”), since the fish was often eaten on holy days. Cognate with Dutch heilbot, German Heiligbutt, Heilbutt, Heilbutte, Danish helleflynder, Swedish helgeflundra, and Norwegian Nynorsk hellefisk. See: Middle English Nouns '
halibut', Dutch Nouns '
heilbot', Swedish Nouns '
helgeflundra'.
Verbs referencing "halibut"
Catalan Nouns
halibut, Italian Nouns
halibut, Polish Nouns
halibut, Spanish Nouns
halibut, Swedish Nouns
hälleflundra.