different between snoek vs snook

English

Alternative forms

• snook

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans snoek, from Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec. Some sense come from or are influenced by Dutch zeesnoek (“barracuda”, literally “sea pike”), a word that Van Riebeeck applied to the Thyrsites atun.

Noun

snoek

1. (South Africa) An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
   • 2003, Oceanographic Literature Review, Volume 50, Issues 1-2600, page 348,

     Snoek (Thyrsites atun) is a valuable commercial species and an important predator of small pelagic fishes in the Benguela ecosystem. The South African population attains 50% sexual maturity at a fork length of ca.73.0 cm (3 years). Spawning occurs offshore during winter-spring, along the shelf break (150-400 m) of the western Agulhas Bank and the South African west coast

   • 2004, Calvin Trillin, The strange attraction of snoek, The New Yorker, Volume 80, page lxxxvi,

     My friend Jeffrey Jowell, who grew up in Cape Town, has lived away from South Africa for more than forty years, yearning for snoek the entire time. He thinks about fried snoek and grilled snoek and dried snoek and snoek made into pâté. He may miss smoked snoek most of all. Any mention of snoek—a long, bony fish that looks like a second cousin of a barracuda—triggers memories in Jeffrey of his childhood.

   • 2005, Alicia Wilkinson, Complete South African Fish & Seafood Cookbook, page 58,

     Snoek need not be scaled. The scales are very fine and usually slip off during handling.

2. (South Africa, Natal) The queen mackerel, Scomberomorus lineolatus.
3. (South Africa, Transkei) Any of several species of barracuda.

Synonyms

• barracouta (Australian)

Derived terms

• smoor snoek

References

1978: A dictionary of South African English. Ed. Jean Branford. Oxford.

Anagrams

• Kones, Nosek, Senko, Snoke, soken

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snuk/

Noun

snoek (plural snoeke)

1. snoek, mackerel, Thyrsites atun

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch snoec, from Proto-Germanic *sn?k?a-, a thematic o-grade of *snakan? (“to crawl around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snuk/
• Hyphenation: snoek
• Rhymes: -uk

Noun

snoek m (plural snoeken, diminutive snoekje n)

1. pike (any fish of the genus Esox)
2. pike, Northern pike, Esox lucius

   Synonym: gewone snoek

Derived terms

• gewone snoek
• snoekachtig
• snoekbaars
• snoekmakreel
• zeesnoek

References

English

Alternative forms

• snoek

Pronunciation

• enPR: sno?ok, IPA^(key): /snu?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k

Etymology 1

Dutch snoek (“pike, Esox”)

Noun

snook (plural snooks)

1. A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.
   1. Centropomus undecimalis, the common snook.
2. Any of various other ray-finned fishes in several families.

Verb

snook (third-person singular simple present snooks, present participle snooking, simple past and past participle snooked)

1. To fish for snook.

Derived terms

• bay snook
• common snook

Etymology 2

From the 19th century. Unknown origin, possibly related to snoot or snout.

Noun

snook (plural snooks)

1. (Britain, derogatory, as a gesture) A disrespectful gesture, performed by placing the tip of a thumb on one's nose with the fingers spread, and typically while wiggling the fingers back and forth.

Derived terms

• cock a snook
• cocking of a snook
• snook-cocker
• snook-cocking

Verb

snook (third-person singular simple present snooks, present participle snooking, simple past and past participle snooked)

1. (obsolete) To sniff out.
2. (obsolete) To lurk; to lie in ambush.

References

• Michael Quinion (2004) , “Snook”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Konos, nooks