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catfisher

noun

Etymology

From catfish + -er.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as catfish — “cat + fish”
  7. suffixed as catfisher — “catfish + er”

Definitions

  1. Someone who fishes for catfish.

  2. Someone who catfishes (creates a fake profile).

    • I’ve done a lot of online dating and I’ve had catfishers hit on me before, but usually it’s obvious.
    • Catfishers lie and mislead people in their search for intimate and personal relationships through text, chat rooms, email, instant messaging, and other apps.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for catfisher. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA