quahog
English
Etymology
Most often thought to be from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Narragansett poquaûhock (“hard clam”), perhaps from pohkeni (“dark”) + hogki (“shell”). Alternatively from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mohegan-Pequot p'quaghhaug (“hard clam”) or another (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "alg" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. language.
Pronunciation
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Audio (GA) /ˈkoʊ.hɑg/: (file) - 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, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 “quahog”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “quahog”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 “quahog”, in Collins English Dictionary; from Michael Agnes, editor, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th edition, Cleveland, Oh.: Wiley, 2010, →ISBN.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 “quahog”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Linguistic Atlas of New England (1939)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “quahog”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes IV (P–Simulant), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.: "quahog"
Further reading
- “quahog”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.