klipvis, noun

/ˈkləpfəs/
Forms:
Formerly also klipvisch.
Plurals:
klipvisse/ˈkləpfəsə/.
Origin:
Afrikaans, South African Dutch, DutchShow more Afrikaans, earlier South African Dutch klipvis, klipvisch, from Dutch klip rock, stone + visch fish.
1. obsolete. The kingklip (sense 2), Genypterus capensis.
1790 E. Helme tr. of F. Le Vaillant’s Trav. into Int. I. 22The klepvis..is without scales,..and taken among the rocks on the sea shore.
1876 H. Brooks Natal 141Klipvisch, kingklip fish..are held in very high estimation.
2. klipfish sense 1. Occasionally also klipvissie [see -ie].
1887 S.W. Silver & Co.’s Handbk to S. Afr. 185Blennius versicolor (several varieties)...Klipvisch...All very delicious. Flesh fat and firm when cooked freshly caught.
1902 J.D.F. Gilchrist in Trans. of S. Afr. Philological Soc. XI. 224Several names, or parts of names, are derived from the localities in which the fish are found. Thus we have..Klip Visch, Steen Klip Visch (a peculiar redundancy).
1902 J.D.F. Gilchrist in Trans. of S. Afr. Philological Soc. XI. 229Klip-visch...Clinus, 12 sp.
1953 U. Krige Dream & Desert 14They had..gazed into rockpools full of starfish, slowly waving sea plants and green-and-gold klipvissies drifting lazily from crevice to crevice.
1977 K.F.R. Budack in A. Traill Khoisan Ling. Studies 3 15The so-called ‘klipvisse’ (various genera and species of the family Clinidae).
1994 Afr. Wildlife Vol.48 No.5, 31 (advt)Crowned Cormorants feed in shallow waters on bottom-dwelling prey such as klipvis, crustaceans and polychaete worms.
The kingklip (sense 2), Genypterus capensis.
klipfish sense 1. Occasionally also klipvissie [see -ie].
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