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sac-à-lait U.S.
Also sacalai, sacola (Cent. Dict.).
[Fr.: lit. ‘milk bag’; perh. an etymologizing perversion of some Indian word.]
A name locally applied to certain fishes of the genera Pomoxys and Fundulus.
[1877C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer 378 Goggle-eyed Perch;..sac-a-lac (New Orleans Creoles).] 1884Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 407 The Crappie—Pomoxys annularis..is commonly called..‘Sac-à-lait’..in the Lower Mississippi. Ibid. 466 Fundulus grandis, is known at Pensacola by the name of ‘Sac-à-lait’. 1903T. H. Bean Fishes N.Y. 463 Still other names of local application [for the calico bass] are barfish, bitter head, tinmouth, sac-a-lait, lamplighter, [etc.]. 1931W. A. Read Louisiana-French 67 In Louisiana the final t of sacalait is silent. 1937Zeitschr. für Französische Sprache & Literatur LXI. 82 Sacalait, the Louisiana name for the crappie.., commonly thought to have been suggested by the beautiful white flesh or the silvery appearance of this fish. The actual source of the name is Choctaw sakli, ‘trout’, French sac à lait being merely a typical example of folk etymology. 1949New Orleans Times-Picayune Mag. 16 Oct. 20/3 If you run out of bait while the bream, sacalait, and other fish are practically jumping into the boat, then the lily is your friend. 1973Trailer Travel Jan. 73/2 You can catch large-mouth bass, channel cats, breams, and sac-a-lait or crappie. |