eel
A type of long, slender fish (somewhat resembling a snake in appearance)
that spends most of its life in freshwater but breeds in the
ocean, and
consequently is found in marshy areas where freshwater has access to
the sea.
Eels are not commonly eaten in the U.S. but eel pie, for instance, is
eaten in Britain.
To take an example from one of JKR's favourite books, when
in C.S. Lewis'
The Silver Chair,
the Marsh-wiggle Puddleglum offered Jill and Eustace eel stew but was dubious
about whether humans could eat it or would enjoy it, he was merely giving
one of his typical gloomy observations about life, the universe, and
everything.
half-shares in her eel farm (GF7)
effing
slang substitute for a very rude term
