squeteague

English

Wikispecies

A line drawing of a squeteague or weakfish (Cynoscion regalis)

Etymology

From the North American name This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

squeteague (plural squeteagues)

1. The weakfish, a silvery edible American sciaenoid fish, .
   • 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, 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.

Synonyms

• weakfish, chickwit, sea trout, squitee

Translations

Cynoscion regalis

• Ojibwe: please add this translation if you can
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Welsh: gludbysgodyn m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “squeteague”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)