Catfish vs Mary - What's the difference?
catfish | mary |
Any fish of the order Siluriformes, that are mainly found in freshwater, are without scales, and have barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
To create a fake online profile to seduce someone (from the 2010 documentary )
* {{quote-news
, date = 2013-01-17
, title = In Te’o Story, Deception Ripped From the Screen
, author = Mary Pilon
, newspaper = (The New York Times)
, issn = 0362-4331
, url = http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/sports/ncaafootball/deception-ripped-from-the-screen-in-hoax-story-of-manti-teo.html
, passage = Getting catfished is when someone falls for a person online who is not necessarily real. It can involve pictures, phone calls, social media profiles, text messages, e-mails and even phony friends or family members.
}}
* {{quote-video
, date = 2014-01-16
, title = Cooperative Polygraphy
, series =
, network = NBC
, medium = TV
, season = 5
, number = 4
, people = (Donald Glover)
, role = Troy
, time = 12:17
, passage = [to Abed]'' You made a profile for a fake dude and lured her into an online relationship. ''[to Annie] He's catfishing you.}}
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English invariant nouns
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* 1821 Lord Byron, Don Juan : Canto the Fifth: IV:
* 1830 Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Cottage Names :
* 1905 , Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway , Mary is a Grand Old Name ( a song)
The Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ.
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The 19th sura (chapter) of the Quran
Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha.
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(Ireland, dated) A middle name for a male, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.
As nouns the difference between catfish and mary
is that catfish is any fish of the order siluriformes, that are mainly found in freshwater, are without scales, and have barbels like whiskers around the mouth while mary is (gay slang|chiefly|us) a male homosexual.As a verb catfish
is to create a fake online profile to seduce someone (from the 2010 documentary ).catfish
English
(wikipedia catfish)Etymology 1
From . Likely so named for its prominent barbels like a 's whiskers.Noun
Synonyms
* sheat, sheatfishDerived terms
* airbreathing catfish * channel catfish * whale catfishVerb
(es)mary
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(wikipedia Mary)Proper noun
(Marys)- I have a passion for the name of Mary , / For once it was a magic sound to me: / And still it half calls up the realm of fairy / Where I beheld what never was to be.
- Mary , which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young;
- For it was Mary'; '''Mary''' / Plain as any name can be / But with propriety, society / Will say "Marie". / But it was '''Mary'''; ' Mary / Long before the fashions came / And there's something there that sounds so square / It's a grand old name.
- Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
- Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.