fishhook

See also: fish hook

English

Different types of fish hooks

Alternative forms

• fish hook

Etymology

From Middle English fisch-hook, from Old English *fischōc (“fishhook”), equivalent to fish +‎ hook. Cognate with Dutch vishaak (“fishhook”). In the sense of a jack (playing card), refers to the shape of the letter J on the card.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃˌhʊk/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

fishhook (plural fishhooks)

1. A barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing.

   Synonyms: angle, fishing hook, hook

   • 1980, Dale R. Croes, Eric Blinman, editors, Hoko River: A 2500 Year Old Fishing Camp on the Northwest Coast of North America (Reports of Investigations (Washington State University. Laboratory of Anthropology); 58), Pullman, Wash.: Laboratory of Anthropology, Washington State University, →OCLC, page 141:

     The two basic types of fishhooks are almost equally represented within the site, with composite fishhooks exhibiting only a slightly higher relative frequency than that of bentwoods.

   • 2013 July 15, Jack Hitt, “DNA Backs Lore on Pre-Columbian Dogs”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Others sprint off and take position — their jackal ears fully erect, their fishhook tails twitching like flags in a stiff wind.

2. (slang, card games) A jack (type of playing card).

Translations

barbed hook for fishing

• Arabic: صِنَّارَة f (ṣinnāra), خَطَّاف m (ḵaṭṭāf)
• Armenian: կարթ (hy) (kartʻ)
• Assamese: বৰশী (boroxi)
• Azerbaijani: çəngəl (az)
• Basque: amu
• Belarusian: кручо́к m (kručók)
• Bikol Central: banwit (bcl)
• Breton: bac'h (br) m
• Bulgarian: ку́ка (bg) f (kúka)
• Catalan: ham (ca) m
• Chamicuro: c̈ho'kapeli
• Cherokee: ᏑᏗ (sudi)
• Chichewa: mbedza nsomba
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 釣鉤 / 钓钩 (zh) (diàogōu), 魚鉤 / 鱼钩 (zh) (yúgōu)

• Cornish: bagh m
• Czech: háček (cs) m
• Danish: fiskekrog, krog (da) c
• Dutch: vishaak (nl), haak (nl)
• Esperanto: fiŝhoko
• Finnish: ongenkoukku (fi), koukku (fi)
• French: hameçon (fr) m
• Galician: anzol (gl) m, amocelo m, brinca (gl) f
• Gallurese: amu
• Georgian: კაუჭი (ḳauč̣i), ანკესი (anḳesi)
• German: Angelhaken (de) m, Haken (de) m
• Greek: αγκίστρι (el) n (agkístri)

  Ancient: ἄγκιστρον n (ánkistron)

• Hausa: fatsa (ha) f
• Hebrew: קֶרֶס (he) m
• Hungarian: horog (hu)
• Ido: angelo (io)
• Indonesian: mata kail (id)
• Interlingua: hamo
• Irish: duán (ga) m

  Old Irish: ǽcath

• Italian: amo (it) m
• Japanese: 釣り針 (ja) (つりばり, tsuribari), 釣り鉤 (つりばり, tsuribari)
• Khmer: ផ្លែសន្ទូច (plae sɑntuuc)
• Korean: 낚시 (ko) (naksi), 낚싯바늘 (ko) (naksitbaneul)
• Latin: hāmus m
• Latvian: āķis m
• Lithuanian: kabliukas m, vąšelis m
• Macedonian: ја́дица (mk) f (jádica)
• Malay: mata kail
• Malayalam: ചൂണ്ട (ml) (cūṇṭa)
• Maltese: ganċ tal-ħut
• Maori: pohau, matau, maka
• Maranao: banayaw
• Mongolian: загасны дэгээ (zagasny degee)
• Ngazidja Comorian: iloo class 7/8
• Norman: ain m, cro m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: angel (no), fiskekrok (no)

  Nynorsk: ongul, ongel

• Old English: angol m
• Old Norse: ǫngull m
• Ottoman Turkish: زوقه (zoka), بالق ایكنه‌سی (balık iğnesi), ایكنه (iğne)
• Persian: قلاب ماهیگیری (qollâb mâhigiri)
• Polabian: anďėl m
• Polish: haczyk wędkarski m, haczyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: anzol (pt) m
• Rapa Nui: mangai
• Romanian: cârlig (ro) n
• Russian: рыболо́вный крючо́к m (rybolóvnyj krjučók), крючо́к (ru) m (krjučók)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: amu, gàmu

  Logudorese: amu

• Sassarese: amu
• Scots: heuk
• Scottish Gaelic: dubhan-iasgaich m, dubhan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏дица f

  Roman: ȕdica (sh) f

• Slovak: háčik m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kokulka f

  Upper Sorbian: kótwička f

• Spanish: hamo (es) m, anzuelo (es) m
• Swedish: fiskekrok c, krok (sv) c
• Tagalog: bingwit
• Tausug: bingit
• Telugu: గాలము (te) (gālamu), గాలం (gālaṁ)
• Thai: เบ็ด (th) (bèt), เบ็ดตกปลา
• Tày: bết
• Ukrainian: га́чок m (háčok)
• Vietnamese: lưỡi câu (vi), móc câu (vi)
• Volapük: fitahuk (vo)
• Welsh: bach (cy) m
• Yakan: pessi

Verb

fishhook (third-person singular simple present fishhooks, present participle fishhooking, simple past and past participle fishhooked)

1. (transitive) To impale with a fishhook.
2. (intransitive) To bend back on itself like a fishhook.

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker‎^[2], MGI/Mike Caro University, →ISBN