A goldfish is the little orange pet that swims circles in a round glass bowl. Feed the goldfish, a goldfish bowl, win a goldfish.
The bowl is the worst possible home — too small, too little surface for oxygen — and they grow to a foot in a pond and live for decades. The story that they have a three-second memory is false, and they can be trained. Bowls are banned in some countries.
1noungoldfishA small orange fish kept as a pet.
“The children won a goldfish at the fair and carried it home in a plastic bag.”
goldfish is a fish.
From gold + fish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA