crawdad

Alteration of crawfish (dialectal alternative of crayfish), with influence from dad.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɔˌdæd/

crawdad (plural crawdads)

1. (Midland US) Synonym of crayfish.

• (freshwater crustaceans): crawldad, crawfish, crawlfish, crayfish, mudbug, yabby (Australia)

• “crawdad”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “crawdad”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.