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quaghog
English
Etymology
From Amerindian kwag-hawg.
Noun
quaghog (plural quaghogs)
- (rare) Alternative form of quahog
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quahog
English
Etymology
Most often thought to be from Narragansett poquaûhock (“hard clam”), perhaps from pohkeni (“dark”) +? hogki (“shell”). Alternatively from Mohegan-Pequot p'quaghhaug (“hard clam”)or another Algonquian language.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k??.h??/, /?kw??.h??/, /?kw??.h??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kw?.h??/, /?kw?.h??/; /?kw?.h??/, /?kw?.h??/
- also, especially as quohog: /?kwo?.h??/, /?kwo?.h??/,
- also, especially as cohog: /?ko?.h??/, /?ko?.h??/,
- also: /kw??h??/, /kw?.?h??/
- Hyphenation: qua?hog
Noun
quahog (plural quahogs)
- An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
- The largest size of such an edible clam, generally considered only fit for use in chowders and other clam dishes.
- A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica
Alternative forms
- quahaug (slightly more common until the 1950s, now uncommon)
- quohog (regional US; uncommon nationally)
- cohog (regional US; uncommon nationally)
Synonyms
- (Mercenaria mercenaria): hard clam, chowder clam, round clam; count neck (smallest), littleneck (small), cherrystone (smaller medium), topneck (larger medium)
- (largest size of quahog): chowder clam
Verb
quahog (third-person singular simple present quahogs, present participle quahogging, simple past and past participle quahogged)
- (intransitive) To dig for quahogs.
References
Further reading
- quahog at OneLook Dictionary Search
quahog From the web:
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