squid

See also: SQUID

English

European squid (Loligo vulgaris)

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skwɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

squid (plural squids or squid)

1. Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
2. A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
3. (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
4. (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 jyu^4-2)

  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), pieuvre (fr) f (8 arms), poulpe (fr) f (8 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: 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 the kind of hook called a squid.
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