squeteagues

Noun

squeteague (plural squeteagues)

1. A weakfish, a silvery edible American sciaenoid fish of species Cynoscion regalis.
   • 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...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   weakfish, chickwit, sea trout, squitee