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单词 maskinonge
释义

maskinongen.

Brit. /ˈmaskᵻnɒn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /ˈmæskəˌnɑndʒ/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, maskinonges.
Forms: 1700s maskinunga, 1700s masquenongez, 1700s muskinunge, 1700s– masquinonge, 1800s maskenozha, 1800s maskinongé, 1800s maskinongy, 1800s masquenonger, 1800s masquinongé, 1800s masquinongy, 1800s muscanonge, 1800s muskinonge, 1800s– maskinonge. See also muskellunge n.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French maskinongé.
Etymology: < French maskinongé (1709) < Ojibwa ma:škino:še: (1886 in forms mackinonge, micikinonge (c = /ʃ/)) < ma:š, ma:ši ill-formed + kino:še: northern pike.The form maskinonge is the preferred headword in Dict. Canadianisms (1967). Most 20th-cent. Canadian dictionaries define the word under the spelling muskellunge, although including maskinonge also as a variant.
= muskellunge n.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox nobilior (maskinonge)
Oswego bass1758
maskinonge1789
muskellunge1794
lunge1851
Oswego1857
muskie1894
1789 T. Anburey Trav. Interior Parts Amer. I. 274 It abounds with great quantities and variety of fish; sturgeon, black bass, masquenongez pike of an incredible size, and many others.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 352 Maskinungas, a very large species of pickerel.
1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada iii. 30 Among the pike, is to be included the species, called, by the Indians, masquinongé.
1852 S. Moodie Roughing it in Bush II. ii. 51 John Nogan..would bring a fine bunch of ducks..or leave a large maskinonge on the sill of the door.
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha viii. 101 And he said to the Kenozha, To the pike, the Maskenozha.
1899 Pall Mall Mag. Apr. 445 The big trout and maskinonge were stirring themselves in the depths of the lake.
1912 S. Leacock in M. Atwood & R. Weaver Oxf. Bk. Canad. Short Stories (1986) 30 There's Dean Drone..with a trolling line in case of maskinonge, and a landing-net in case of pickerel.
1963 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Apr. 5/6 Only in one respect might he come into conflict with his companions..—by using the U.S. term muskellunge instead of the accepted, original Canadian name, maskinonge.
1987 T. C. Boyle World's End (1988) xiv. 178 They were scaling fish on the banks of the Conewanago—yellow perch, walleyes, maskinonge.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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