seafood

== English == === Etymology === From sea + food. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsiːfuːd/ Hyphenation: sea‧food === Noun === seafood (usually uncountable, plural seafoods) Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms. Synonym: fruit of the sea Hypernyms: food < material, stuff (by extension) Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water. For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood. ==== Usage notes ==== For some users the term excludes algae/seaweed, marine mammals, or other organisms. Food products that are derived, especially industrially, from organisms that are included may also be excluded. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “seafood”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == 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 (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, euphemistic) asshole; jerk; shithead old seafood,老seafood [Cantonese] ― ou1 si1 fut1, lou5 si1 fut1 [Jyutping] ― old fart, dinosaur ===== 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 fu6-2). ==== Pronunciation ==== ==== Proper noun ==== seafood (Taiwan, slang) Liu Chin-lung, founder and leader of the cult Rulaizong