humpie

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English

Pink Salmon (humpie)

Etymology

From the shape of the body, which has a hump behind the head.

Noun

humpie (plural humpies)

  1. A humpback salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha.
    • 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 44:
      There was a lot of snagging at first, of humpies too tired to resist, of deadfall trailing limbs in the water, but after a while Gregor caught and by a miracle landed a two-pound rainbow and everyone began fishing in earnest.
    • 2011, Warren Miller, Lurching from One Near Disaster to the Next, →ISBN:
      Humpies travel in schools on or near the surface, so the dorsal fin can be easily spotted.
    • 2013, William B. McCloskey, Raiders: A Novel, →ISBN:
      The once-unthinkable to Hank became his concentrated project for the next several days: to hone his deckwise wife to the mysteries of spotting and capturing humpie salmon from the viewpoint of the wheelhouse.