whalefishEtymologyFrom whale + fish. Compare West Frisian walfisk, Dutch walvis (“whale”), German Low German Waalfisch, German Walfisch (“whale”), Danish hvalfisk (“whale”), Icelandic hvalfiskur.whalefish means A whale. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 93 out of 100.nounA whale.“In Baffin's Bay where the whale-fish blow, The fate of Franklin no man may know”Any fish of the order Cetomimiformes of deepwater ray-finned fish.