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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Ptychocheilus oregonensis, a cyprinoid fish found in fresh waters of the Pacific coast of America tributary to the Columbia and Fraser rivers.
  • noun In New South Wales, a fresh-water fish, Ctenolates auratus: called also golden perch.
  • noun In Dunedin especially, and New Zealand generally, a large flounder, also called lemon-sole or turbot.
  • noun A frog.
  • noun A person born in the fens of Lincolnshire, in jesting reference to the frogs in the fens.
  • noun A sole-like flounder, Rhombosolea leporina.

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  • noun A coward.
  • noun UK, slang Someone from Lincolnshire.

Etymologies

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yellow +‎ belly

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