Gar vs Snook - What's the difference?
gar | snook |
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 15:
A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes, especially
# , the common snook.
Any of various other fishes. See (pedialite).
(UK, pejorative, 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.
As nouns the difference between gar and snook
is that gar is gaur (species of wild cattle) while snook is a freshwater and marine fish of the family centropomidae in the order perciformes, especially or snook can be (uk|pejorative|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.As a verb snook is
to fish for snook or snook can be (obsolete) to sniff out.gar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gar, gare, gere, gore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Etymology 2
Etymology 3
From (etyl) garren, gerren, from (etyl) gera, gerva'' (Swedish ''''), from (etyl) . Compare ''yare .Verb
- I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].
- Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].