goldfish
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goldfish¹
- /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/
Rhymes with -oʊldfɪʃ
noun goldfish · goldfishes
- A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored. For the children's fair we'll have a few games they can play, so that each child "wins" a goldfish as a prize.
- A person with an unreliable memory.
- Nonstandard form of Goldfish (“a small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish”). Tomato soup is not complete without a toasted cheese sandwich and goldfishes. Not the new kind with the smiley faces though.
Goldfish²
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From goldfish. Named after the shape and color.
noun Goldfish · Goldfishes · goldfish
- A small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish. They were both working on their second and The Bad Czech was threatening to break the pub record for eating Goldfish, previously held by the chairman of the division of chemistry. […] He took the little fish-shaped cracker and held it in fingers as big as 50-milliliter test tubes.
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Closest in meaning: carassius auratus, minnow, carp, blowfish, fish, finfish, fishy, red, pez, pisces, poisson, schoolboy, swam, fischer, auratus, carassius
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noun fish
| Español | pez rojo, pez dorado, pez de oro, pez de colores, carpa dorada |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 금붕어 geumbung'eo |
| 日本語 | 金魚 kingyo |
| 中文 | 金魚 /金鱼 jīnyú |
| हिन्दी | सुनहरी मछली sunahrī machlī |
| Português | doirada, peixinho dourado |
| Français | poisson rouge, carassin doré |
| Deutsch | Goldfisch |
| Italiano | pesce rosso |
| Ελληνικά | χρυσόψαρο chrysópsaro |
| Română | peștișor auriu, caras-auriu |
| Русский | золота́я ры́бка zolotája rýbka |
| Tiếng Việt | cá vàng, cá ba đuôi |
| العربية | سَمَكَة زِينة |
| עברית | דַּג זָהָב dag zaháv |
Talk about this word "goldfish." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/goldfish. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. goldfish. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/goldfish "goldfish." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/goldfish.Cite this
@misc{goldfish_2026,
title = {goldfish},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/goldfish},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
