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tautog

American

[taw-tog, -tawg, tau-tog] / tɔˈtɒg, -ˈtɔg, ˈtaʊ tɒg /

noun

a dark-colored wrasse, Tautoga onitis, a popular game and food fish inhabiting waters along the North Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to South Carolina.

tautog British

/ tɔːˈtɒɡ /

noun

Also called: blackfish. a large dark-coloured wrasse, Tautoga onitis, of the North American coast of the Atlantic Ocean: used as a food fish

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Etymology

Origin of tautog

An Americanism first recorded in 1635–45; from Narragansett ( English spelling) tautaũog, plural of taut

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He predicted that removing the old traps will help the populations of various fish species including tautog, rock crabs, whelk, cunner and sea bass, as well as the remaining lobsters.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

Whatever this tautog had been up to, it was bound now for ice.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2012

It was almost time to head home, to the planks and the knives, with a tautog that did not behave like a tautog and a few striped bass.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2012

A noted authority on catching trophy stripers, Mola is equally skilled at tautog, fluke and canyon fishing.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I was adding up the perch and the tautog."

From Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway by Oliver Optic

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