seafood

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Etymology

From sea +‎ food.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsiːfuːd/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: sea‧food

Noun

seafood (usually uncountable, plural seafoods)

  1. Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.
    Synonym: fruit of the sea
    • 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.
    • 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.

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Chinese

Etymology 1

From English seafood, which resembles the pronunciation of 屎窟 (si2 fat1, “buttocks”), in turn an ellipsis of 屎窟鬼 (si2 fat1 gwai2, “asshole”).

Pronunciation

Noun

seafood

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, euphemistic) asshole; jerk; shithead
    old seafood [Cantonese]  ―  ou1 si1 fut1   ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    老seafood [Cantonese]  ―  lou5 si1 fut1   ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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Etymology 2

From English seafood, which resembles the pronunciation of 師父 / 师父 (shīfu) and is the way the believers refer to him. Possibly via Cantonese 師父 / 师父 (si1 fu6-2).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

seafood

  1. (Taiwan, slang) Liu Chin-lung, founder and leader of the cult Rulaizong
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