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gaspergou local U.S.|gæspəˈguː|
Also gaspar-goo, gaspergoo.
[f. Louisiana Fr. casseburgau, f. casser to break + burgau a species of shellfish.]
The freshwater drum-fish, Aplodinotus grunniens.
1809F. Cuming in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1904) IV. li. 330 A fine dish of gaspar-goo, the best fish I had yet tasted of the produce of the Mississippi. 1831W. B. Dewees Lett. fr. Texas (1852) xv. 137 Up the country our rivers abound with various kinds of fish, such as cat, buffalo, perch and gaspergoos. 1947B. W. Dalrymple Panfish 344 For years they've been catching Sheepshead and Gaspergou. |