seafood

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Etymology

From sea + foodCategory:English compound terms#SEAFOOD.

Pronunciation

Noun

seafood (usually uncountable, plural seafoods)Category:English lemmas#SEAFOODCategory:English nouns#SEAFOODCategory:English uncountable nouns#SEAFOODCategory:English countable nouns#SEAFOODCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SEAFOODCategory:Pages with entries#SEAFOODCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEAFOOD

  1. Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
    Synonym: fruit of the sea
    Hypernyms: food < materialCategory:English links with manual fragments#SEAFOOD, stuffCategory:English links with manual fragments#SEAFOOD
    • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 127:
      But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.
      Category:English terms with quotations#SEAFOOD
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
      Write about radiation levels in seafood, “safe” pollution limits set by pollutors, government policy auctioned for campaign donations and Seaboard's ex juris police force, and you'll raise the temperature of public awareness, fractionally, towards its ignition point.
      Category:English terms with quotations#SEAFOOD
  2. (by extension) Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.

Usage notes

  • For some users the term excludes algae/seaweed, marine mammals, or other organisms. Food products that are derived, especially industrially, from organisms that are included may also be excluded.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • seafood”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Category:en:Seafood#SEAFOODCategory:en:Meats#SEAFOOD

Chinese

Etymology 1

From EnglishCategory:Cantonese terms derived from English#SEAFOOD seafood, which resembles the pronunciation of 屎窟 (si2 fat1, buttocks), in turn an ellipsis of 屎窟鬼 (si2 fat1 gwai2, asshole).

Pronunciation


Category:Chinese lemmas#seafoodCategory:Cantonese lemmas#seafoodCategory:Chinese nouns#seafoodCategory:Cantonese nouns#seafoodCategory:Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation#seafoodCategory:Chinese terms written in foreign scripts#seafood

Noun

seafoodCategory:Chinese lemmas#SEAFOODCategory:Chinese nouns#SEAFOODCategory:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#SEAFOODCategory:Pages with entries#SEAFOODCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEAFOOD

  1. (Hong Kong CantoneseCategory:Hong Kong Cantonese#SEAFOOD, neologismCategory:Chinese neologisms#SEAFOOD, euphemisticCategory:Chinese euphemisms#SEAFOOD) asshole; jerk; shithead
    old seafood [Cantonese]   ou1 si1 fut1 [Jyutping]   (please add an English translation of this usage example) Category:Requests for translations of Cantonese usage examplesCategory:Cantonese terms with collocations
    seafood [Cantonese]   lou5 si1 fut1 [Jyutping]   (please add an English translation of this usage example) Category:Requests for translations of Cantonese usage examplesCategory:Cantonese terms with collocations
See also

Etymology 2

From EnglishCategory:Chinese terms derived from English#SEAFOOD seafood, which resembles the pronunciation of 師父 / 师父 (shīfu) and is the way the believers refer to him. Possibly via CantoneseCategory:Chinese terms derived from Cantonese#SEAFOOD 師父 / 师父 (si1 fu6-2).

Pronunciation

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!
Category:Requests for pronunciation in Chinese entries#SEAFOOD

Proper noun

seafoodCategory:Chinese lemmas#SEAFOODCategory:Chinese proper nouns#SEAFOODCategory:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#SEAFOODCategory:Pages with entries#SEAFOODCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEAFOOD

  1. (TaiwanCategory:Taiwanese Chinese#SEAFOOD, slangCategory:Chinese slang#SEAFOOD) Liu Chin-lung, founder and leader of the cult Rulaizong
Category:zh:Nicknames for individuals#SEAFOOD
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