ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

I discovered an interesting word to-day. SQUALOID.

It means; Like a shark.

It could come in handy for bush poets to use in their correspondence with the Australian Tax Office. It least it would put them to the trouble of searching for a dictionary.

also relates to dogfish therefore it gets a thumbs up from me

What the hell are dogfish ? - obviously they must chase cat fish

You might also work it into a conversation with the Highway Patrolman who pulls you up for a breath test. It's not recommended if he hasn't noticed your bald tyres or defective tail light.
But you should be OK . It's highly unlikely that any Hwy Patrolman would know the meaning of words like that.

Has any one noticed how quick Maureen is to pick up any words that relate to “DOGS”?

Cool A.

TTFN

And.. and..

It is an excellent word for lexic , lixecc.. uur loxi.. wordsmiths.. because it has a Q in it. Squaloid

Lexicographers = would you believe that is the second time I have had reason to use this word in the past three days?

Funny that, Dave.

Zondrae, are you a member of the local Scrabble team ?

Maureen, a dogfish is a sort of small shark beloved by biology lecturers and tutors as a set dissection for students (or it was in the olden days, when I was a student).
Robyn

Oh neville, by the way,

I would have thought that squaloid was in some way related to 'squalor'. So is it a lazy, messy fish?

As far as I can find Zondrae, squalid means extremely dirty and unpleasant.
I can't find that it is related to the term squaloid, which comes from squalus a latin word for sea fish.

I guess if a shark got hold of you in it's gob, things would turn rather squalid.

G'day Neville,

I thought the 'squal' in common would indicate they are derived from the same root.