1881 H. Hemphill Let. in 1 21 Glycimeris generosa. Olympia, Washington Territory... The boys at Olympia call them ‘Geoducks’; they dig them on a certain sand bar at extreme low tide, and sell them to a merchant who ships them to Portland, Oreg... The boys inform me that the Indians on the Sound call them Quenux, and dry them for food with the other clams.
1882 1 Index 455/1 Geoduck clam, introduction of, upon the Atlantic coast.
1895 Aug. 38 This shell is commonly called the ‘Goe-duck’.
1925 Nov. 35/1 The geoduck, she found, was a gigantic clam that was quite delicious when Nora, the cook, had fried it in a batter.
1962 J. W. Hedgpeth 114 The shell of the Gaper is more oval in outline and deeply dished.., while that of the Goeduck is shallower and rectangular at the siphon (posterior) end.
1972 20 Feb. 4/3 The suction power of a goeyduck, in this loose sand and water formation, was tremendous.
1978 8 Apr. 8/2 Gooeyducks are delicious, but the geoduck clam fishery did not get started till several years ago.
1989 6 Nov. 33 Alick Shaw..uses up to 14 kilograms of geoduck in chowder weekly [in his Wellington restaurant].
2004 Apr. 92/1 I survey the ice-lined crates containing sea snails, rock cod, sea urchin and a Vancouver favorite, geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck)—a giant clam.