catfishes
Barbeled bottom dwellers
Catfishes is the plural of catfish, a freshwater fish with whisker-like barbels around its mouth.
As a verb, to catfish is to deceive someone online by creating a fake identity, typically for romantic manipulation: She discovered she'd been catfished for months.
Catfishes can refer to multiple fish or multiple acts of this deception.
Facial sensory hairs
- barbelsFish sensory projections
- bottom-feedersCreatures eating debris below
- freshwaterNon-saline aquatic environment
- muddyObscured by silt
channels · bullheads · flatheads · blues · noodling · trotlines · jugging · ponds
- romance scamsFraud using feigned affection
- online datingRomantic connections via internet
- identity theftStealing personal data criminally
- impostersThose feigning false identities
social media · fraudsters · luring · manipulating · pretending · fictitious · photos · emotional manipulation
whiskers
Facial sensory hairs
- barbelsFish sensory projections
- bottom-feedersCreatures eating debris below
- freshwaterNon-saline aquatic environment
muddy · channels · bullheads · flatheads · blues · noodling · trotlines · jugging · ponds · rivers
fake profiles
- romance scamsFraud using feigned affection
- online datingRomantic connections via internet
- identity theftStealing personal data criminally
imposters · social media · fraudsters · luring · manipulating · pretending · fictitious · photos · emotional manipulation · victims
- fried catfishBattered and cooked whiskered fish
- catfish fryNewly hatched catfish offspring
- blackened catfishSpice-crusted seared freshwater fish
- catfish stewSimmered freshwater dish