squid n Cp Burton Bradstock, Do quiddle, squiddle 'young cuttlefish or squid caught in the seine' (P 304-90); cp squid-o in sense 3.
1 1981 MAJOR 31 What we was talking about this one night was squids. It wasn't quite the right time of the year for them then, but we was on to talking about them anyway. 1990 Sunday Express 14 Jan, p. 7 When the squid came, they came in great numbers that you could jig them anyway.
4 Attrib, comb ~ bait, ~ jig, ~ jigger, ~ jigging, ~ shit: see ~ juice.
1984 KELLAND 97 Both squid bait and codfish were very plentiful so all hands were reasonably sure of rounding off a good season's work. 1983 WARNER 26 You used little lead
weights--squid jigs, you called them--painted red and crowned at their bottoms with twenty or more tines, bent upward and needle-sharp. 1984 KELLAND 10 From the work benches of those stores were manufactured...hand tubs, trawls tubs [and] squid jiggers and handline reels. 1981 MAJOR 31 A good evening of squid jigging in September or October is one of the best bits of fun you can have out on the salt water. ibid 31 Arms like an octopus, only smaller. If anything grabs hold of them, they shoots out this black inky stuff--squid shit.
