Home › Words › C › cockabondycockabondycockabondy means an angler's artificial fly.EtymologyPerhaps from Welsh coch y bonddu (literally “red with black stem”).nounAn angler's artificial fly.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.codbait 68% match — Synonym of caddisworm when used as fishing bait vs cockabondy →cadbait 67% match — A caddis; the larva of a caddis fly. vs cockabondy →cobleman 62% match — A fisherman who uses a coble. vs cockabondy →cadew 60% match — A caddis. vs cockabondy →gadger 59% match — A stonefly nymph used as bait. vs cockabondy →cockabully 58% match — Any of various small, blunt-nosed freshwater fishes, especially gobies of the genus Gobiomorphus. vs cockabondy →dobson 57% match — The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in fishing. vs cockabondy →bonefishing 57% match — Angling for bonefish. vs cockabondy →