snook
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Setting out into the Gulf of Mexico in threes and fours, fishermen returned with buckets of tarpon and long, streaked snook.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
From Indigenous fisheries to commercial operations, snook have been celebrated as a high-quality river fish since the time of Mayan rule, making river fisheries in Mexico important for food, Pease said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
Fish vary in their omega-3 levels and generally the fishier they taste the more omega-3 fats they have — such as tuna, salmon, deep sea perch, trevally, mackeral and snook.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023
It was as if they were cocking a snook at the new president.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2022
Among the dead were mullets, snook, moj arras, gambusia.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
In times yet to come, British football administrators would infamously cock their haughty snooks at the World Cup, the European Cup, and the European Championship.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012
Last week, although nothing so serious was in sight, Great Britain cocked two more snooks across the Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their chief fish are bonitos, snooks, cavallies, breams, and mullets; and they have abundance of sea-tortoises; and the island has many harbours, creeks, and rivers.
Congratulations old girl snooks says awfully glad to be with you if papa pays the freight we are stony.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
Dampier, `Voyage,' vol. i: "The chiefest fish are bonetas, snooks, cavallys."
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris
