squid

See also: SQUID

English

European squid (Loligo vulgaris)

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skwɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

squid (plural squids or squid)

2. Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
3. A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
4. (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
5. (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.

   Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie.

   • 2004, The Streets (lyrics and music), “It Was Supposed to Be So Easy”, in A Grand Don’t Come for Free:

     Press the fifty squid button – "Insufficient funds".
     […]
     A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys / Or a whole fifty scores

Derived terms

• arctic squid (Gonatus fabricii)
• Argentine shortfin squid (Illex argentinus)
• arrow squid
• Atlantic brief squid (Lolliguncula brevis)
• Atlantic squid (Loligo spp.)
• banded piglet squid (Helicocranchia pfefferi)
• bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)
• bigfin squid (Magnapinna spp.)
• bird squid (Ornithoteuthis)
• bobtail squid (order Sepiolida)
• bottletail squid
• broad squid (Uroteuthis etheridgei)
• bush-club squid (Batoteuthis skolops)
• Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea)
• cockatoo squid (family Cranchiidae)
• colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni)
• common squid
• damp squid
• Dana octopus squid (Taningia danae)
• dumpling squid
• European squid (Loligo vulgaris)
• firefly squid (Watasenia scintillans)
• fire squid (family Pyroteuthidae)
• flying squid (family Ommastrephidae)
• giant squid (family Architeuthidae)
• giant warty squid (Kondakovia longimana)
• glacial squid (Psychroteuthis glacialis)
• glass squid (family Cranchiidae)
• Gould's squid (Nototodarus gouldi)
• Grimaldi scaled squid (Lepidoteuthis grimaldii)
• Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes)
• hooked squid (family Onychoteuthidae)
• hook squid
• Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas)
• Japanese flying squid, Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus)
• jewel squid (Histioteuthis spp.)
• Joubin's squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri)
• jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas)
• little post horn squid (Spirula spirula)
• long-armed squid (Chiroteuthis veranyi)
• longarm octopus squid (Kondakovia longimana)
• longfin inshore squid (Doryteuthis pealeii)
• neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartramii)
• New Zealand arrow squid (Nototodarus sloanii)
• oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)
• Pacific flying squid (Todarodes pacificus)
• pencil squid (family Loliginidae)
• pygmy squid
• ram's horn squid (Spirula spirula)
• red flying squid, red squid (Ommastrephes bartramii)
• reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea)
• rhomboid squid (Thysanoteuthis rhombus)
• robust clubhook squid (Onykia robusta)
• sharpear enope squid (Ancistrocheirus lesueurii)
• slender inshore squid (Doryteuthis plei)
• sparkling enope squid (Watasenia scintillans)
• spear squid (Hetrololigo bleekeri)
• squidhound (Morone saxatilis)
• stinky squid (Pseudocolus fusiformis)
• striped dumpling squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
• striped pyjama squad (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
• stubby squid
• tail-light horn squid (Spirula spirula)
• vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
• whip-lash squid (family Mastigoteuthidae)

 

Translations

sea animal

Afrikaans: pylinkvis (af) Ainu: パㇱサンナ (patsanna), マシタンペ (masitanpe) Albanian: kallamar (sq) m Arabic: حَبَّار (ar) m (ḥabbār) Egyptian Arabic: توتيا m (tutya), سبيط f (sobbēṭ), كلامارى f (kalamāri), Tunisian Arabic: سيبيا f (sībya), سوبية f (sūbya), سوبيا f (sūbya), شوباي (ċubǣy), شوابي (ċwābi) Armenian: կաղամար (hy) (kaġamar) Azerbaijani: kalmar Basque: txibia Bau Bidayuh: sutung Belarusian: кальма́р (be) m (kalʹmár) Bengali: স্কুইড (bn) (skuiḍ) Brunei Malay: sutung Bulgarian: калма́р (bg) m (kalmár) Burmese: ပြည်ကြီးငါး (my) (pranykri:nga:) Catalan: calamars (ca) m, calamar (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 魷魚／鱿鱼 (jau4 jyu4-2) Hokkien: 魷魚／鱿鱼 (jiû-hî, jiû-hû), 鰇魚／𬶧鱼 (liû-hîr, jiû-hî, liû-hî, liû-hû) Mandarin: 烏賊／乌贼 (zh) (wūzéi), 魷魚／鱿鱼 (zh) (yóuyú) Wu: 魷魚／鱿鱼 (6yeu-ng) Cornish: stifek m Czech: krakatice (cs) f Danish: blæksprutte c Dutch: inktvis (nl) m Esperanto: sepio, kalmaro (eo) Estonian: kalmaar Faroese: høgguslokkur m Fijian: sulua Finnish: kalmari (fi), mustekala (fi) French: seiche (fr) f (10 arms), encornet (fr) m, calmar (fr) m Galician: lura (gl) f Georgian: მელანთევზი (melantevzi) German: Kalmar (de) m, Tintenfisch (de) m Greek: καλαμάρι (el) n (kalamári) Ancient: τευθίς f (teuthís) Greenlandic: amikoq Gujarati: સ્ક્વિડ (skviḍ) Hawaiian: mūheʻe, heʻe Hebrew: דְּיוֹנוּן (he) (dyonún) Hindi: विद्रूप (hi) m (vidrūp), स्क्विड m (skviḍ) Hungarian: tintahal (hu), kalmár (hu), szépia (hu) Icelandic: smokkfiskur (is) m, smokkur (is) m Ido: kalmaro (io) Indonesian: cumi-cumi (id), nus (id), ikan sotong Interlingua: calamar Irish: scuid f, máthair shúigh f Isan: please add this translation if you can Italian: calamaro (it) m Japanese: 烏賊 (ja) (イカ, ika), 鰞 (イカ, ika), 柔魚 (イカ, ika), イカ (ja) (ika) Javanese: iwak nus Kannada: ಸ್ಕ್ವಿಡ್ (skviḍ) Kazakh: кальмар (kalmar) Khmer: ត្រីមឹក (trəy mɨk), មឹក (km) (mɨk), យៀវហ៊ឺ (yiəw hɨɨ) Korean: 오징어 (ko) (ojing'eo) Kyrgyz: кальмар (ky) (kalmar) Lao: ຫມຶກ (mưk), ປາອີ່ຮື (pā ʼī hư̄) Latin: lōlīgō f Latvian: kalmārs m Lithuanian: kalmaras m Lü: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: ли́гна f (lígna) Malay: sotong Malayalam: കൂന്തൾ (kūntaḷ) Maltese: klamar m Manx: dyachlym, peie vreinn, squid Maori: wheke, ngū Marathi: स्क्विड (skviḍ) Mi'kmaq: seta'su anim Navajo: łóóʼ bigaan neeznání, łóóʼ bigaan neeznání íiyisígíí Nepali: स्क्विड (skviḍ) Norman: cônet m Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: akkar (no) m Old English: cudele f Orok: askuttu Persian: ماهی مرکب (fa) (mâhi-ye morakkab), انکاس (enkâs) Polish: kalmar (pl) m anim, kałamarnica (pl) f Portuguese: lula (pt) f Quechua: samanna Romanian: calamar m, calmar (ro) m Russian: кальма́р (ru) m (kalʹmár) Sambali: posit Samoan: gūfe'e, fe'e Sassarese: tòtanu Scottish Gaelic: gibeanach m, gibearnach m, gubarnach, iasg-cutail m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ли̏гња f Roman: lȉgnja (sh) f Sinhalese: දැල්ලා (dællā) Slovak: kalmar m Slovene: lígenj (sl) m Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can Spanish: calamar (es) m Sundanese: cumi-cumi (su) Swahili: pweza (sw) Swedish: bläckfisk (sv) c Tagalog: pusit Tahitian: fee Tajik: калмар (kalmar) Tamil: கணவாய் (ta) (kaṇavāy) Telugu: స్క్విడ్ (skviḍ) Thai: ปลาหมึก (th) (bplaa-mʉ̀k), หมึก (th) (mʉ̀k) Tigrinya: ኣቡ ቐለም (ʾabu ḳʰäläm) Tok Pisin: urita Tongan: 'atalava Turkish: mürekkep balığı (tr), kalamar (tr) Turkmen: kalmar Ukrainian: кальма́р m (kalʹmár) Urdu: سکویڈ m (skviḍ), قیر ماہی (qīr-māhī) Uyghur: كالمار (kalmar) Uzbek: kalmar Vietnamese: mực ống Waray-Waray: nuos Welsh: ystifflog m, môr-lawes f, twyllwr du m, pibwr inc m Yiddish: טינטפֿיש m (tintfish) Zazaki: kalamar m Zhuang: byayouzyiz

See also

• calamari
• cuttlefish
• octopus

Verb

squid (third-person singular simple present squids, present participle squidding, simple past and past participle squidded)

1. (fishing) To fish with a squid fishhook.
2. (parachuting) To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).

References

• squid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Teuthida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Teuthida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Possibly a blend of stupid +‎ quick; "stupid, quick, under-dressed and imminently dead", a claimed origin, is probably a backronym.

Noun

squid (plural squids)

1. (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.

   "In my mind, a street squid is anyone who races on the street. Period."¹

   "squid: a cocky motorcyclist who darts very aggressively through traffic"²

References

• Harrison, Greg. Son of Squid. American Motorcyclist. Vol. 41, No. 8. ISSN 0277-9358. p. 5. Aug 1987
• Hough, David L. (2000), Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well (2nd ed.), USA: BowTie Press, p. 253, →ISBN, 9781889540535, p. 253.

Anagrams

• Qudsi, quids