quahog

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English

Etymology

Most often thought to be from Narragansett poquaûhock (“hard clam”), or perhaps from pohkeni (“dark”) +‎ hogki (“shell”). Alternatively from Mohegan-Pequot p'quaghhaug (“hard clam”) or another Algonquian language.

Pronunciation

Noun

quahog (plural quahogs)

  1. An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
    1. The largest size of such an edible clam, generally considered only fit for use in chowders and other clam dishes.
  2. A similar edible clam, of species Arctica islandica, found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters.
    Synonyms: ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam, Icelandic cyprine

Alternative forms

  • quahaug (slightly more common until the 1950s, now uncommon)
  • quohog (regional US; uncommon nationally)
  • cohog (regional US; uncommon nationally)

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Verb

quahog (third-person singular simple present quahogs, present participle quahogging, simple past and past participle quahogged)

  1. (intransitive) To dig for quahogs.

References

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “quahog”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  3. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Linguistic Atlas of New England (1939)
  6. ↑ 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"
  • “quahog”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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