α. 1700s quahoag, 1700s quauhog, 1700s– quahaug, 1800s quahawg, 1800s– quahag, 1800s– quahog, 1800s– quohaug, 1800s– quohog, 1900s– quauhaug.
β. 1700s– cohog.
单词 | quahog |
释义 | quahogn.α. 1700s quahoag, 1700s quauhog, 1700s– quahaug, 1800s quahawg, 1800s– quahag, 1800s– quahog, 1800s– quohaug, 1800s– quohog, 1900s– quauhaug. β. 1700s– cohog. U.S. regional (chiefly New England). A large, rounded, edible clam, Mercenaria (formerly Venus) mercenaria (family Veneridae), of the Atlantic coast of North America. Also called hard clam, hardshell clam. Cf. clam n.2 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae Venus-shell1589 hena1613 sea-snapple1658 clam1672 clamp1672 nun1678 purr?1711 Venus purr1713 Venus1777 quahog1781 palourde1823 littleneck1854 venerid1861 1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 262 The oysters, clams, quauhogs, lobsters, crabs, and fish, are innumerable. 1788 M. Cutler Jrnl. 29 Aug. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 416 Went into the water; found a great number of clam cohog shells. 1816 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. IV. 289 The quahaug clam is common. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xiv. 70 They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand. 1882 Standard 26 Sept. 2/1 In every hotel bill of fare the clam or quahog..figures in a variety of shapes. 1920 A. F. Pattee Pract. Dietetics (ed. 13) 168 There are two varieties, the hard and soft shell clams. The hard shell are known as quahaugs. 1934 E. Reynard Narrow Land v. 249 He handed over his Old Woman's recipe for quahaug fritters. 1940 New Eng. Q. 13 371 The Handbook contains two dozen charts which definitely show..the localities where round clams are called ‘quahaugs’ and where they are known as ‘cohogs’. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Mag.) 11/1 Anybody who uses potatoes in quahog pie is no Cape Codder. 1991 Rhode Island Monthly Mar. 55/1 Eclectic regional fare ranging from chowder..and quahog pie to chourico and beans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quahogv. U.S. regional (New England). intransitive. To dig for or harvest quahogs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > fish for type of fish [verb (intransitive)] > for shellfish clam1636 oyster1896 quahog1913 1913 Dial. Notes 4 56 Quahog, to rake for quahogs. 1949 K. Knight Bass Derby Murder 122 I was down to the pond quahoggin', all afternoon. 1984 New Yorker 17 Sept. 39/3 A guy I used to quahog with. 2005 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 11 Feb. d1 Rameika..says he's been quahogging for 24 years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1781v.1913 |
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