seafood

English Online Dictionary. What means seafood‎? What does seafood mean?

English

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Etymology

From sea +‎ food.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːfuːd/
• Hyphenation: sea‧food

Noun

seafood (usually uncountable, plural seafoods)

1. Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.

   Synonym: fruit of the sea

Derived terms

Translations

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 [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   老seafood [Cantonese]  ―  lou⁵ si¹ fut¹ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

See also

• 老屎窟

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 fu^6-2).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

seafood

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