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
There’s a ramp where anglers launch boats to fish for trophy-sized walleye and muskie.
From Washington Times ● May 21, 2016
David Hickman of Richland broke the tiger muskie record with a 37.88 pound fish he caught July 26 in Curlew Lake in Ferry County using a white spinner bait.
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
There was a brief but decisive struggle that went hopelessly against the fish, and Mr. Cameron gaffed Old Muskie and dragged him ashore.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by William Patten
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