Shark

Noun

 * 1) A scaleless fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton that has 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
 * 2) * 1569, The true discripcion of this marueilous strange Fishe, whiche was taken on Thursday was sennight, the xvj. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God, M.D.lxix., a broadside printed in London, the earliest known use of the term; reprinted in A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides: printed in the reigh of Queen Elizabeth, between the years 1559 and 1597 in 1867:
 * The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, [...]. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke.

Derived terms

 * angel shark, angleshark
 * basking shark
 * bramble shark
 * bull shark
 * bullhead shark
 * carpetshark
 * catshark, cat shark
 * cookiecutter shark
 * cow shark
 * frilled shark
 * goblin shark
 * great white shark
 * Greenland shark
 * ground shark
 * gummyshark, gummy shark
 * hammerhead shark
 * hound shark, houndshark


 * lantern shark, lanternshark
 * lemon shark
 * leopard shark
 * mackerel shark
 * mako shark
 * nurse shark
 * requiem shark
 * sand shark
 * saw shark, sawshark
 * sleepershark
 * swellshark
 * thresher shark
 * tiger shark
 * weasel shark
 * whale shark
 * white shark

Noun

 * 1)  A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser.
 * 2)  A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
 * 3)  A very good pool player.
 * 4)  A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

Derived terms

 * card shark
 * loan shark
 * pool shark


 * shark bait
 * sharklike
 * sharkskin

Verb

 * 1)  To steal or obtain through fraud.

Derived terms

 * shirk

Verbs for Shark
elude—s; repel—s; —s abound; —attacks;—bolts; —devours; —s endanger; —overturns; —plunges; —preys upon; —pursues;— ravage; —skims; —skulks; —thrashes;— victimize.

Thesaurus
Admirable Crichton, Loch Ness monster, Reptilia, adept, alevin, animal, anthropophagite, artisan, artist, attache, authority, barbarian, beast, benthon, benthos, blackmailer, bloodsucker, brute, bunco artist, bunco steerer, cannibal, cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, cetacean, con artist, con man, confidence man, connaisseur, connoisseur, consultant, cordon bleu, crack shot, craftsman, crimp, dead shot, destroyer, diplomat, diplomatist, dolphin, elder statesman, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, extortionist, fingerling, fish, fry, game fish, graduate, grilse, handy man, harpy, horse coper, horse trader, hyena, jackleg, journeyman, kipper, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, leech, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, marksman, minnow, minny, mortgage shark, nekton, nihilist, no slouch, panfish, pettifogger, pitchman, plankton, politician, porpoise, predator, pro, professional, professor, proficient, profiteer, racketeer, raptor, salmon, savage, savant, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, shakedown artist, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster, slicker, smolt, spieler, sponge, statesman, technical adviser, technician, tiger, tropical fish, vampire, vandal, vulture, whale, wild man, wrecker

Etymology 1
First attested in the 1560s, the word meaning 'scaleless fish' is of uncertain origin: it was apparently brought to England, with a specimen, by John Hawkins. The word may derive from the Maya xoc:, or it may be an application of the "scoundrel" sense (which derives from the German Schurke:) to the fish; no explanation is agreed upon.

Etymology 2
From the Schurke:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (qirš)
 * Armenian: շնաձուկ (šnajuk)
 * Azeri: köpək balığı
 * Basque: marrazo
 * Bengali: হাঙ্গর
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鯊魚
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Nan: soa-hî
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Fijian: qio
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σελάχος (selachos)
 * Modern: καρχαρίας
 * Greenlandic:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: शार्क मछली
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 상어 (sang-eo)


 * Latin: squalus
 * Latvian: haizivs
 * Lithuanian: ryklys
 * Luxembourgish: Hai
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: ikan yu
 * Malayalam: സ്രാവ്
 * Maltese: kelb il-baħar, xark
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: शार्क
 * Navajo:
 * Norman:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Oromo:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: tiwrun
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: squagl
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: siorc, cearban
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: žralokovidné
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pating
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: సొర చేప
 * Thai: (bplaachàlăam)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:, cá nhám
 * Volapük: jak,  hijak,  jijak,  jakül
 * Welsh: morgi
 * Yiddish: ,
 * Yucatec Maya:

Noun

 * Italian:

Anagrams

 * harks
 * HKSAR