Also snook. [Du. snoek pike: cf. SNOOK2.] At the Cape of Good Hope, the common name of the fish Thyrsites Atun. Also attrib. and Comb.

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1853.  Pappe, Edible Fishes C. Good Hope, 24. Thyrsites Atun. Cuv. and Val. (Snook; Snoek).

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1872.  Hutton & Hector, Fishes N. Zealand, s.v. Thyrsites Atun, This is, I believe, the fish called snook in Cape Colony.

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1889.  Science-Gossip, XXV. 50. The unhappy snoek-eaters wander about like so many grown children afflicted with mumps.

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1896.  Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, i. (1897), 8–9. Old Cape Town just the same as ever…. Malays and snoek fish everywhere.

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