starfish
/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
noun
Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
Obsolete
noun
A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: Asteroidea"
- "But the largest of the star-fish kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the star-fish, kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms."
- "Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish."
- ""Oh you damn bastard, why won't you let anybody love you," and then, before I could stop her, she threw herself between us and the glowing suitcase, starfishing in the blaze of light as he blew up."
- "The freckle on her eye starfished out and the sun began to move over her face like it does below the surface of water."
- "The sea roared up her nostrils, tunnelled into her ears, and flung her forward, then back, the current pulling her fingers apart, starfishing her hands."