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snook

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun snook has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

snookv. i. [Prov. E. snook to search out, to follow by the scent; cf. Sw. snoka to lurk, LG. snöggen, snuckern, snökern, to snuffle, to smell about, to search for.].
     To lurk; to lie in ambush.  [1913 Webster]
snookn. [D. snoek.].
     A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

snook, n. sl. a contemptuous gesture with the thumb to the nose and the fingers spread out.

Idiom
cock a snook (often foll. by at)
1 make this gesture.
2 register one's contempt (for a person, establishment, etc.).
snook, n. a marine fish, Centropomus undecimalis, used as food.

Etymology
Du. snoek: see SNOEK
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