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snook

Pronunciation: /snuːk/

The English word “snook” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.
  2. Centropomus undecimalis (common snook).
  3. Any of various other ray-finned fishes in several families.
  4. 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.

verb

  1. To fish for snook.
  2. To sniff out.
  3. To lurk; to lie in ambush.

Etymology

From Dutch snoek (“pike, Esox”). Doublet of snoek; perhaps more distantly related to snake.

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