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squiteague

squiteague is the alternative form of squeteague.

Meaning of squeteague

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

Forms of squiteague

pluralsquiteagues

Questions about squiteague

What is squiteague the alternative form of?
Squiteague is the alternative form of squeteague.

Words near squiteague in the dictionary

  1. squishyness
  2. squit
  3. squitch
  4. squitch grass
  5. squitchy
  6. squiteague
  7. squiteagues
  8. Squitieri
  9. Squitieris
  10. squits
  11. squitted

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