musquash

American  

[muhs-kwosh] / ˈmʌs kwɒʃ /

noun

1. Chiefly British. the fur of the muskrat.

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musquash British  

/ ˈmʌskwɒʃ /

noun

1. another name for muskrat , used esp to refer to its fur

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Etymology

Origin of musquash

1770–80, < Massachusett cognate of Western Abenaki mòskwas (perhaps equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *mo·ŝk- bobbing above the surface of the water + *-exkwe· head + derivational elements, i.e., the one whose head bobs above the water)

Example Sentences

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musquash

In Great Britain a musquash pelt is worth only about a shilling.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have seen foxes, minks, martens and musquash as taken crumpled like rags from the same bag.

From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Hunter, Martin

But the old musquash avoided the path, as if he had suffered in such places before.

From A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories by Long, William J. (William Joseph)

The only reassuring note in the "musquash talk" to-day is sounded when the subject of candles is reached.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian

The Russian musquash is very small, 7 � 4 in., and is limited in numbers compared to the brown.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various