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/skwiːˈtiːɡ/ · noun
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 slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
The Injuns get to Naturmitgefuhl by the metaphor of a family: if you don't throw the roe-plump squeteague back, that is a sort of nepoticide.
Use squeteague when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Squeteague means A weakfish, a silvery edible American sciaenoid fish of species Cynoscion regalis..
Common synonyms include weakfish, chickwit, sea trout, squitee.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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