English
squawfish
From squaw + fish.
The story
It has been suggested that squawfish could be a corruption of *squawkfish (in reference to the sound the fish makes when taken out of the water), but that form is unattested, and compare oldsquaw ducks which were named because their squawking was likened to Native American women's.disputed Scholars disagree here; the competing view is quoted as the source gives it.
Today it means
noun The pikeminnow.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “squawfish”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / squawfish