Snook vs Stook - What's the difference?
snook | stook |
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.
A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
* 1958 , (Iris Murdoch), The Bell :
As nouns the difference between snook and stook
is that snook is a freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes, especially while stook is a pile or bundle, especially of straw.As verbs the difference between snook and stook
is that snook is to fish for snook while stook is to make stooks.snook
English
(wikipedia snook)Alternative forms
* snoekEtymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bay snook * common snookEtymology 2
From the 19th century. origin, possibly related to (snoot) or (snout). (rfphoto)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cock a snook * cocking of a snook * snook-cocker * snook-cockingReferences
*Anagrams
*stook
English
Noun
(en noun)- And on the road home they lay among the stooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.
- The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.