Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long thin marine food fish (Thyrsites atun) of the family Gempylidae, widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere.
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- noun South Africa An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
- noun South Africa The queen
mackerel , Scomberomorous lineolatus. - noun South Africa Any of several species of
barracuda .
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- noun a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa
Etymologies
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Examples
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It introduces us to more South African culinary treats, from snoek pate to biltong.
'It is South Africa's sheer beauty that I will take away with me' 2011
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The simple snoek fisherman's horn came to the fore and trumped all other product innovations by playing a new note of novelty, simplicity and local ingenuity.
Marketers Can Learn From The Vuvuzela Donovan Neale-May 2010
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Even serves fish and chips, or rather the local snoek fish and chips, for around R50 ($5) along with a good glass of wine for R12
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The department is investigating allegations that the ship caught over 300 tons of snoek and only some 39 tons of hake during its last voyage.
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A deep-sea trawler suspected of catching snoek instead of its licensed catch of hake and horse mackerel was seized by the
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Myself, I'd like a good salomi, but I'll pass on the snoek; I don't eat any sort of seafood.
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She could put some judicious questions to him between the Woolton Pie and the grilled snoek and chips without making a song and dance about things.
Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002
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Multiple rights for the hand-line hake and tuna sectors was acceptable and as, an additional concession, these two sectors, as with the traditional linefish sector, would retain access to snoek.
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This meant that those Cape fishermen who caught snoek during the winter season to supplement their income, could not, outside of this time, legally take part in other commercial fishing ventures.
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Although many traditional linefish species were endangered, snoek was a healthy resource.
hernesheir commented on the word snoek
It's a fish.
January 2, 2012
chained_bear commented on the word snoek
"The year 1947 ... Potatoes were rationed for the first time, and ten million half-pound tins of snoek were imported from South Africa. As repellent as it sounded absurd -- Marguerite Patten remembers it, simply, as 'awful' -- snoek cost only 1 1/2 s or a point a tin, and it promised to make up for the loss of tinned sardines and salmon. But no matter how cooks longed for something new, Ministry recipes for snoek piquant (onions, vinegar, syrup), snoek pasties or snoek salads tickled no one's fancy. Two years later, more than a third of the tins remained unsold, most turning up on grocery shelves as cheap catfood."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 343-344
January 19, 2017