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Goldfish
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goldfish
English
+ cracker
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Alternative forms
en goldfish nonstandard
Etymology
From en goldfish. Named after the shape and color.
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Goldfish.wav US
Noun
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A small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish.
en 1983 Joseph Wambaugh The Delta Star Morrow/Perigord 215 They were both working on their second and The Bad Czech was threatening to break the pub record for eating Goldfish, previously held by the chairman of the division of chemistry. He took the little fish-shaped cracker and held it in fingers as big as 50-milliliter test tubes.
en 31 December 1999 Tracy T. Knock knock... alt.fan.british-accent https://web.archive.org/web/20251021162137/https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.british-accent/c/o_nUGhOtZ6Y/m/ESCM7MCezu0J No tomato soup with the toasted cheese? And I'd put mustard on the sandwich too, and parmesan cheese Goldfishes on the soup.
en 2007 George Stella Eating Stella Style 63 Simon & Schuster For me, Goldfish crackers were always a comfort food growing up.
Usage notes
“Goldfish” is a registered trademark of Pepperidge Farm.
en trademarks
en Snacks