skua

See also: Skua and skúa

English

Etymology

From Faroese skúgvur (“Great Skua”), from Old Norse skúfr, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskjuːə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: skewer (non-rhotic)

A Great Skua in Iceland.

Noun

skua (plural skuas)

1. Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches.

Synonyms

• jaeger

Derived terms

• Arctic skua
• pomarine skua
• pomatorhine skua

 

Translations

predatory seabird of the family Stercorariidae

• Arabic: كَرْكَر m (karkar)
• Asturian: cágalu (ast), fernandón (ast)
• Bulgarian: гигантски морелетник m (gigantski moreletnik)
• Czech: chaluha (cs) f
• Danish: kjove c
• Dutch: jager (nl) m
• Faroese: kjógvi m
• Finnish: kihu (fi)
• French: labbe (fr) f
• Galician: palleira (gl) f, golea f, papamerda m, merdento m
• German: Raubmöwe f, Skua (de) f
• Italian: stercorario (it) m
• Latvian: klijkaija f
• Lithuanian: plėšikas (lt) m
• Maori: hākoakoa
• Navajo: łóóʼyiniʼįįhí
• North Frisian: skua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jo (no) m

  Nynorsk: jo m

• Polish: wydrzyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: moleiro (pt) m, mandrião (pt) m, estercorário m
• Romanian: lup de mare m
• Russian: помо́рник (ru) m (pomórnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: fàsgadair m, fàsgadan m
• Serbo-Croatian: pomornik (sh)
• Slovak: pomorník m
• Spanish: págalo m
• Swedish: labb (sv) c, kustlabb (sv) c
• Welsh: sgiwen f

Verb

skua (third-person singular simple present skuas, present participle skuaing, simple past and past participle skuaed)

1. (transitive, slang, Antarctica) To steal, or borrow without permission.
   • 2019, Elizabeth Bradfield, Toward Antarctica: An Exploration:

     We skua crew mess pastries and cheese, skua toe warmers, gloves. I skuaed her chocolate. Can't help it.

See also

• skua on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Aksu, Kasu, Kaus, Sauk, auks

French

Etymology

From Faroese skúgvur (“Great Skua”).

Noun

skua m (plural skuas)

1. great skua

   Synonym: grand labbe

See also

• Skua on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• labbe

Further reading

• “skua”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• skuene (of noun)
• skuet (of verb)

Noun

skua n

1. definite plural of skue

Verb

skua

1. inflection of skue:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle