different between wrassle vs wrasse

English

Verb

wrassle (third-person singular simple present wrassles, present participle wrassling, simple past and past participle wrassled)

1. Pronunciation spelling of wrestle, representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), page 84:

     Poor Jody! He ought not to have to wrassle in there by himself.

Anagrams

• Walsers, warless

English

Etymology

Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

wrasse (plural wrasses)

1. Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored. [from mid-17th c.]

Hyponyms

• (species called wrasse): wrasse at FishBase.

Derived terms

• comb wrasse (Coris picta)
• humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus)
• wrasse blenny (Hemiemblemaria simulus)
• See search for * wrasse at OneLook.

Translations

Anagrams

• Wasser, resaws, sawers, swares, swears