name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
snook
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sno͞ok
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/snuːk/
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CMU ARPABET: S N UH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.
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noun
Meaning 3
A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.
Centropomus undecimalis (common snook).
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noun
Meaning 4
Any of various other ray-finned fishes in several families.
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noun
Meaning 5
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, derogatory
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verb
Meaning 6
To fish for snook.
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verb
Meaning 7
To sniff out.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 8
To lurk; to lie in ambush.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 9
large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
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Broader terms: robalo
History
Etymology
From Dutch snoek (“pike, Esox”). Doublet of snoek; perhaps more distantly related to snake.
From the 19th century. Uncertain origin, but probably a variant of snoke. Compare also sneck (“nose”). These words are partly sound-symbolic, given the similarity to snoot, snout, sniff, sneeze etc.
Across languages
Translations
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: robalo — fish
- Paraujano: looro — fish
- Czech: dlouhý nos — gesture
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