The Collaborative International Dictionary
blue perch
Cunner \Cun"ner\ (k[u^]n"n[~e]r), n. [Cf. Conner.] (Zo["o]l.)
A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast ( Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. [Written also conner.]
A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
Usage examples of "blue perch".
The knife was spinning and his entrails snagged and wrapped around it, so that his guts were drawn out of him, as though he was one of those big blue perch from the river being disembowelled by a fishwife on the market block.