English

jugfish

From jug + fish.

A compound of jug + fish

Middle English jugge

English jug

Proto-Indo-European *piskós

Proto-Germanic *fiskaz

Proto-West Germanic *fisk

Old English fisċ

Middle English fisch ‘an animal that inhabits the water or the meat…’

English fish

Today it means

noun The swellfish or swelltoad.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.