muskie
noun
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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
Burke Lake, Fairfax Station: Walleye and muskie are cool-water fish, and Burke is a warm-water lake, says John Odenkirk, a Northern Virginia district fisheries biologist.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2018
Foster said the Linesville fish hatchery is one of the state’s largest warm water hatcheries, producing and stocking walleye, yellow perch, largemouth bass, channel catfish and muskie.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 2, 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
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
Of those six, only Edmund Muskie, a Democratic senator from Maine, failed to capture his party’s nomination, and that was 52 years ago.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
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
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 Patten, William
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