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tautog|tɔːˈtɒg|
Also tautaug, tetaug.
[ad. Narragansett taut-auog, pl. of taut name of the fish: see quot. 1643.]
A labroid fish, Tautoga americana (T. onitis), also called black-fish or oyster-fish, abundant on the Atlantic coast of N. America, and esteemed for food.
1643Roger Williams Key to Lang. of America xix. 115 Of Fish and Fishing. Taut-aūog. Sheeps-heads. 1828–32Webster, Tetaug, the name of a fish on the coast of New England; called also black fish. 1848Bartlett Dict. Amer., Tautaug. 1851Hawthorne Ho. Sev. Gables xviii, Real turtle, we understand, and salmon, tautog, canvass-backs, pig, English mutton. 1888G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 288 ‘Tautog’ would consequently seem to be a word from the dialect of the Narragansett Indians. |