mossbunker
[maws-buhng-ker, mos-]
- the menhaden.
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Origin of mossbunker
1785–95, Americanism; < Dutch marsbanker
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mossbunker
- US another name for menhaden
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Word Origin
C18: from Dutch marsbanker scad, horse-mackerel
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