squid

See also: SQUID

English

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /skwɪd/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

squid (plural squids or squid)

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

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), 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

Verb

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

(fishing) To fish with a squid fishhook.
(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)

(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