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snookEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Dutch snoek (“pike, Esox”). Doublet of snoek; perhaps more distantly related to snake.
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From the 19th century. Uncertain origin, but probably a variant of snoke. Compare also sneck (“nose”). These words are partly sound-symbolic, given the similarity to snoot, snout, sniff, sneeze etc.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- SnookEnglish · e-38700-2272
Snook, snōōk, v.i. to lurk, prowl about: to smell out—(Scot.) Snouk. [Low Ger. snoken, to search for; Ice. snaka, to snuff about.]
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Snook, snōōk, n. one of several fishes—the cobia, a robalo, a garfish, a Cape carangoid fish. [Dut. snoek, a pike.]
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