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Webster 1913 Edition
squeteague
sque-teague′
(skwē̍-tēg′)
, Noun.
[From the North American Indian name.]
(Zool.)
An American sciaenoid fish (
Cynoscion regalis
), abundant on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and much valued as a food fish. It is of a bright silvery color, with iridescent reflections. Called also weakfish
, squitee
, chickwit
, and sea trout
. The spotted squeteague (Cynoscion nebulosus
) of the Southern United States is a similar fish, but the back and upper fins are spotted with black. It is called also spotted weakfish
and squit
, and, locally, sea trout
, and sea salmon
. See also under squitee
. Definition 2024
squeteague
squeteague
English
A line drawing of a squeteague or weakfish (Cynoscion regalis)
Noun
squeteague (plural squeteagues)
- The weakfish, a silvery edible American sciaenoid fish, Cynoscion regalis.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
- 2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, ISBN 978-0-595-18351-7, page 154:
- The Injuns get to Naturmitgefuhl by the metaphor of a family: if you don't throw the roe-plump squeteague back, that is a sort of nepoticide.
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Synonyms
Translations
Cynoscion regalis
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