Snoek vs Snook - What's the difference?
snoek | snook | Alternative forms |
(South Africa) An edible fish, , native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
* 2003 , Oceanographic Literature Review , Volume 50, Issues 1-2600,
* 2004', Calvin Trillin, ''The strange attraction of '''snoek'' , ''The New Yorker , Volume 80,
* 2005 , Alicia Wilkinson, Complete South African Fish & Seafood Cookbook ,
(South Africa, Natal) The queen mackerel, .
(South Africa, Transkei) Any of several species of barracuda.
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.
Snook is a alternative form of snoek.
As nouns the difference between snoek and snook
is that snoek is an edible fish, species: Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted while snook is a freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes, especially.As a verb snook is
to fish for snook.snoek
English
(wikipedia)Alternative forms
* snookNoun
(-)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
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.
page 58,
- Snoek need not be scaled. The scales are very fine and usually slip off during handling.