squeteague

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• IPA^(key): /skwiːˈtiːɡ/

squeteague (plural squeteagues)

1. 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, 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.

• weakfish, chickwit, sea trout, squitee

• squeteague in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913