muskie
noun
muskie
1 American
[muhs-kee]
/ ˈmʌs ki /
noun
Muskie
2
American
[muhs-kee]
/ ˈmʌs ki /
noun
Muskie
1
British
/ ˈmʌskɪ /
noun
muskie
2
British
/ ˈmʌskɪ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of muskie
First recorded in 1890–95; musk(ellunge) + -ie
Example Sentences
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An angler on the other side of the country in Minnesota recently broke a decades-old record after reeling in a large muskie.
From Fox News ● Dec. 28, 2021
There’s a ramp where anglers launch boats to fish for trophy-sized walleye and muskie.
From Washington Times ● May 21, 2016
The new record tiger muskie record beat out the previous record set in 2001, and held by John Bays of Chehalis with a fish caught in Mayfield Lake in Lewis County.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2014
He enjoyed the creek as a swimming hole and spent countless hours fishing for carp, fresh water drum, small mouth bass, flathead catfish, muskie, and even an occasional walleye.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2012
I had gear in the canoe for a week and I was trying to catch a muskie so I could let it go.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Well, you can’t ask Muskie, because the former Maine senator is dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2025
That was a decade in which a senator from Maine named Edmund Muskie, who was a staunch environmentalist, seemed destined to be elected president over Richard Nixon in the 1972 election.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2023
Edmund Muskie, a former Democratic senator from Maine and later secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter, took 98 classified papers that were later found at Bates College, officials said.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2023
Sen. Edmund Muskie, of Maine, and later as former Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s top adviser for environmental and energy issues.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Again Old Muskie struck, and unable to cut the line, rushed into the interlacing boughs of the submerged treetops.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by William Patten
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