noun. A freshwater cyprinid fish (Cyprinus carpio) native to Eurasia that is widely bred in ponds for food.

noun. Any of various fishes of the family Cyprinidae.

intransitive verb. To complain or find fault in a petty or disagreeable way: synonym: quibble.

To speak; tell.

To talk; babble; chatter.

To censure, cavil, or find fault, particularly without reason or petulantly: used absolutely or followed by at.

To utter; speak.

To blame; find fault with; chide.

noun. A name of various fishes of the genus Chilodactylus in Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania. These fishes are not related to the European carp, which is a cyprinoid fish.

noun. Speech; talk; conversation.

To prepare teazels for the napping-machine for dressing woolen cloth.

noun. A teleostean fish of the family Cyprinidæ, Cyprinus carpio.

noun. A fish related to the common carp.

noun. A name on the northeast coast of Ireland for the common sea-bream, Pagellus centrodontus.

noun. An English name of the opah.

noun. In the United States, a carp-sucker; a catostomoid fish of the subfamily Ictiobinæ and genus Carpiodes.

intransitive verb. To talk; to speak; to prattle.

intransitive verb. To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at.

transitive verb. To say; to tell.

transitive verb. To find fault with; to censure.

noun. A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp. See cruclan carp.

noun. a small crustacean, of the genus Argulus, parasitic on carp and allied fishes. See Branchiura.

noun. a fish (Moxostoma carpio) of the Ohio River and Great Lakes, allied to the suckers.

noun. a name given to several species of fresh-water fishes of the genus Carpiodes in the United States; -- called also quillback.

noun. Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

verb. To complain about a fault; to harp on.

noun. the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised

verb. raise trivial objections

noun. any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae

"No I'm not kidding, on a worldwide basis, the carp is the most prized quarry."

koi  lake-carp  looking-glass carp  murray carp  norwegian carp  

freshwater fish  object  

Arp  Harp  Sharp  Sharpe  Tharp  

bream  catfish  chub  eel  gudgeon  

bug  bully  bullyrag  carp at  catch at straws  

cruclan carp  

carped  carping  carps