different between snook vs snoof

English

Alternative forms

• snoek

Pronunciation

• enPR: sno?ok, IPA^(key): /snu?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k

Etymology 1

Dutch snoek (“pike, Esox”)

Noun

snook (plural snooks)

1. A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.
   1. Centropomus undecimalis, the common snook.
2. Any of various other ray-finned fishes in several families.

Verb

snook (third-person singular simple present snooks, present participle snooking, simple past and past participle snooked)

1. To fish for snook.

Derived terms

• bay snook
• common snook

Etymology 2

From the 19th century. Unknown origin, possibly related to snoot or snout.

Noun

snook (plural snooks)

1. (Britain, derogatory, as a gesture) A disrespectful gesture, performed by placing the tip of a thumb on one's nose with the fingers spread, and typically while wiggling the fingers back and forth.

Derived terms

• cock a snook
• cocking of a snook
• snook-cocker
• snook-cocking

Verb

snook (third-person singular simple present snooks, present participle snooking, simple past and past participle snooked)

1. (obsolete) To sniff out.
2. (obsolete) To lurk; to lie in ambush.

References

• Michael Quinion (2004) , “Snook”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Konos, nooks

English

Etymology

Created in the 1940s.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Any connection to "deaf"?”)

Adjective

snoof (comparative more snoof, superlative most snoof)

1. (humorous, nonstandard) Having lost the sense of smell.
   • 1946 Una Jeffers To Dorothy Brett. The Collected Letters Of Robinson Jeffers. With Selected Letters Of Una Jeffers. Stanford, Volume 3, p. 410:

     […] it means when a person lacks his sense of smell. I'm glad I'm not snoof.

   • 1955. John Galsworthy. A Modern Comedy. C. Scribner's sons, p. 799:

     Luckily, they're all `snoof.`" "What?" said Michael ... One says 'deaf,' 'blind,' 'dumb'—why not `snoof`?"

   • 1966. By Monroe C. Beardsley. Thinking Straight; Principles of Reasoning for Readers and Writers. By Monroe C. Beardsley. Prentice-Hall, p. 292:

     And the word "snoof" has been brought forth (by an analogy with "deaf") to describe someone who is devoid of, or deficient in, the sense of smell.

   • 1994. Diana Starr Cooper. Night After Night. Island Press, p. 127:

     My mother-in-law, Louise Field Cooper, used the word snoof to convey some of this meaning, as in “he has such a bad cold he's gone totally snoof.

Anagrams

• foons

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?f

Verb

snoof

1. singular past indicative of snuiven