English
maskfish
Blend of mask + catfish, equivalent to mask + -fish.
Proto-Indo-European *mosgʷ- ‘netting, mesh, knot, loop’
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Proto-West Germanic *maskā ‘mesh, net’
Medieval Latin masca
Italian maschera ‘mask, disguise’
Middle French masque ‘a covering to hide or protect the face’
English mask
The story
Introduced around the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, when masks were common.
Today it means
verb To wear a face mask to conceal one's unattractiveness, for example in an online dating profile.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / maskfish