squid

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
noun widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins

Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

The squid’s fearsome beak was wide open over Ned Land. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne
Then there were luscious squid swimming about; and, to a salmon, squid are like ripe peaches and cream. — Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes, Charles Madison Curry
There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid. — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville

calamari, calamary

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