Squeteague

Origin

From the North American name

Full definition of squeteague

Noun

1. The weakfish, a silvery edible American sciaenoid fish, .
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 1, 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.

Synonyms

• weakfish, chickwit, sea trout, squitee