geelbekn.
/ˈɡiːlbɛk/, U.S. /ˈɡilˌbɛk/, South African English /ˈxɪəlbek/ South African.
1. A marine fish, Atractoscion aequidens, of the family Sciænidæ, which has bright yellow edges to jaws and gill-cover and is found off the southern coasts of Africa and also of Australia, where it is called teraglin.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Atractoscion (geelbek)
Cape salmon1846
geelbek1853
trag1951
1853 L. Pappe Synopsis Edible Fishes Cape Good Hope 16 Otolithus Æquidens..(Geelbeck.)..Common along the whole coast.
1900 Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 216 The name Cape Salmon..is now appropriated almost exclusively by the Geelbek.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Apr. 301/2 Like so many of the Cape fish,..the geelbek..gets his name from the original Dutch settlers.
1953 J. L. B. Smith Sea Fishes S. Afr. (rev. ed.) 227 Sometimes the tails of cured Kobs are trimmed by dishonest vendors so as to resemble those of the more costly Geelbek.
2. A yellow-billed wild duck, Anas undulata, found in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous)
spirit1747
Baikal or Japanese teal1785
butter-back1791
parera1835
geelbek1867
1867 E. L. Layard Birds S. Afr. 352 A[nas] Xanthorhyncha..Geelbec of Colonists and Sportsmen.
1901 W. T. Black Fish River Bush i. 21 An occasional shot may be got at a Geelbec duck (Anas) as it flies low along the bush lining the river banks.
1957 G. R. McLachlan & R. Liversidge Roberts's Birds S. Afr. 48 Yellowbill. Geelbek.
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3. ‘The term is also applied abusively to a coloured person’ (Pettman). offensive (now historical).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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