DCHP-1 Online
barbot [< Cdn F barbotte] Ont. and Que. 
n. a large catfish, especially Ictalurus punctatus.
- 1901 (1903) "He's always ketchin' barbotte, dat's w'at you call bull-pout."
- 1957 Fifty years ago I used to catch pike and barbotte in the Lower Ottawa with lampreys.
- 1963 . . . most of the fishing up there right now is probably for outsized barbot. . . .
- 1901 (1903) "He's always ketchin' barbotte, dat's w'at you call bull-pout."