filefish
(noun) narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
Source: WordNet® 3.1
filefish (countable and uncountable, plural filefishes or filefish)
Any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies.
• foolfish
• fishlife
Source: Wiktionary
File"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 June 2025
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
