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What is a pregnant goldfish called?

Question #29489. Asked by huh.
Last updated Aug 22 2016.

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mk2norwich
Answer has 17 votes
mk2norwich

Answer has 17 votes.
A twerp.

It's number 131 in the list:
link http://dogman0.tripod.com/useless.html

Mar 10 2003, 6:32 PM
gmackematix
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gmackematix
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Answer has 21 votes.

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Of course, the whole idea of a pregnant goldfish being called a twit, twat or twerp is a joke based on there being no such thing. It has been gullibly repeated by countless ill-researched trivia lists, but I'm pretty sure that neither twit, twat nor twerp have anything to do with fish in most reputable dictionaries or books about fish.
Just use "Onelook" to check out these words in a number of dictionaries if you don't believe me. Here is a site with an interesting theory about where the word "twerp" in its usual sense of an annoying git might have derived:

link http://www.word-detective.com/120505.html


Response last updated by gtho4 on Aug 22 2016.
Jan 25 2007, 6:08 PM
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Answer has 7 votes.

Goldfish lay eggs! A guy at the Goldfish Society of Great Britain had never heard of one being called a twit.


Response last updated by gtho4 on Aug 22 2016.
Mar 20 2008, 8:39 PM
swimmgirl
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swimmgirl

Answer has 3 votes.
twit [twit] noun: A "pregnant goldfish"; which is impossible. Some species of fish do give birth to live young (e.g. guppies and some species of shark), but goldfish, like all cyprinids lay eggs.


May 21 2010, 3:04 PM
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