cockabullyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cockabully (plural cockabullies)

1. (New Zealand) Any of various small, blunt-nosed freshwater fishes, especially gobies of the genus Gobiomorphus. [from 19th c.]
   • 1982, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago 2024, p. 30:

     We knew the plants on its banks and in the creek the rocks, cockabullies, eels and the old weighted shredded sacks of drowned kittens and cats.

2. (New Zealand) Any of various marine fishes of the family Tripterygiidae, found in rockpools and coastal waters. [from 20th c.]