Definition of "eelfare" []

• The movement of eels, especially migratory (adjective)

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• "With respect, when you make a word the second element in a compound its initial consonant is no longer an initial, by definition; in the sentence "the eel fares well" the f- is initial, but in eelfare it's not, and different rules apply."
• "1 Elver 'a young eel' is a variant of eelfare 'the passage of young eels up a river; a brood of young eels'; the first OED citation shows nicely the phonetic development:"