crawdads

We stocked it with crawdads, minnows we caught in the nearby creeks, and small perch we caught in creeks and stock tanks.

Yet there were normal words like crawdads, clemency, egregious.

It might seem strange and off-putting to eat bugs but eating lobster, shrimp and crawdads has similar challenges and these have become commonplace - even delicacies - for most.

But they went home and either helped their dad on the farm, helped their mum do the housework, got a part time job, or read books and hunted crawdads.

Full of delicious invasive crawdads, too.

I've read many Great Works and it's not just that Crime and Punishment is better than As the Crawdads Sing <ugh> but it is also more engaging.

Are the crabs you purchased from Ikea crab legs or more like crayfish (aka crawfish, craydids, crawdaddies, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs, or yabbies.)?

But perhaps before radio, television, the internet, those same people at least would have wandered outside and knocked a baseball around, or looked for crawdads, or dropped sticks into a creek to watch them float away like small boats.