A small blunt-nosed freshwater fish related to the sleepers.
〈新西兰〉（与睡鱼有亲缘关系的）淡水钝鼻小鱼
Genus Gobiomorphus, family Gobiidae (or Eleotridae)
Example sentencesExamples
It was like looking down at a rock pool: the cockabullies squirting away from under a rock, the crabs, the minuscule life.
Other fish - cockabullies and an occasional eel - are returned to the river.
Fish such as giant kokopu and smelt sometimes turn up in nets along with the young of other fish including eels, trout and cockabullies.
Every now and then we would slip away to fish for sprats and cockabullies.
He has been a fisherman for as long as he can remember, starting with eels and cockabullies to the current day, where anything that swims is in potential danger.