snoek

American

[snook] / snuk /

noun

a long, slender marine food fish, Thyrsites atun, of the family Gempylidae, of the southern oceans.

snoek British

/ snʊk /

noun

a South African edible marine fish, Thyrsites atun

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

Etymology

Origin of snoek

First recorded in 1790–1800; from Afrikaans, from Middle Dutch snoec “pike, northern pike”

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

snoek

When the migratory snoek moved away for months, only returning a few weeks ago, he said he earned nothing.

From US News ● May 23, 2015

While the snoek was away, John Mostert said he caught whatever he could in his three-man boat named "Viper."

From US News ● May 23, 2015

The fishing spines are that of the most eaten fish here in the Cape, named snoek.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2012

A Daily Mail headline promptly labeled the snoek as the "Tiger of the Seas."

From Time Magazine Archive

“The fact of the matter is that the Malay vote is a power just here, and it would be about as easy to uproot Table Mountain itself as the diabolical snoek trumpet under discussion.”

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023