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
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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
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
Gergen says the muskie measured 57.5 inches and weighed 54 pounds on a home scale.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2011
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
As for the polling, ask Edmund Muskie, Gary Hart or Hillary Clinton how much those soundings matter at this exceedingly early stage of a presidential race.
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
Hubert Humphrey and his 1968 running mate Edmund Muskie both ran in 1972 for the Democratic nomination, neither successfully.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 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
In every new thing that they learned, they felt that they had one more aid toward the final capture of Old Muskie and the realization of Lee's ambition for college that year.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by William Patten
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