释义 |
cockabully /ˈkɒkəbʊli /noun (plural cockabullies) NZA small blunt-nosed freshwater fish related to the sleepers.- Genus Gobiomorphus, family Gobiidae (or Eleotridae).
Fish such as giant kokopu and smelt sometimes turn up in nets along with the young of other fish including eels, trout and cockabullies....- Other fish - cockabullies and an occasional eel - are returned to the river.
- It was like looking down at a rock pool: the cockabullies squirting away from under a rock, the crabs, the minuscule life.
OriginLate 19th century: from Maori kokopu. |