barbot

[< Cdn F barbotte]

Ont. and Que.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large catfish, especially Ictalurus punctatus.

Quotations

1901

"He's always ketchin' barbotte, dat's w'at you call bull-pout."

1957

Fifty years ago I used to catch pike and barbotte in the Lower Ottawa with lampreys.

1963

. . . most of the fishing up there right now is probably for outsized barbot. . . .