"Inkfish"

[Jonathan Lighter]

For "ink-fish," a cuttlefish or squid, OED offers but two cites (1693 and 1752).

1996 Eddie S. Picardo Tales of a Tail Gunner (Seattle: Hara Pub. Co.) 33 :  On Christmas Eve...Grandma would make spaghetti sauce with inkfish (today they would call it calamari or squid).

Picardo (b. 1922) grew up in Seattle.

In mercantile ingenuity, the switch to "calamari" from "inkfish" rivals that to "Alaska king-crab" from "Japanese spider-crab."  (Neither of these appears in OED.)

JL

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