Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large food and game fish (Esox masquinongy), the largest member of the pike family, found in lakes and rivers of the northern United States and southern Canada.
Wiktionary
- n. A large freshwater gamefish of the pike family, native to the lakes and rivers of eastern and middle western North America; Esox masquinongy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A large American pike (Esox masquinongy formerly Esox nobilior) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America
- n. flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish
Etymologies
- From French masque allongé ("long mask"), a corruption of Ojibwe maashkinoozhe ("ugly pike"). (Wiktionary)
- Canadian French maskinongé, from Ojibwa maashkinoozhe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One thing I had a problem with was your calling your neighbor states muskellunge record a fake.”
“That has never been satisfactorily proven and NY State still lists the Lawton muskellunge as their state record.”
“How about the naturally occurring tiger-musky, half muskellunge and half northern pike?”
“It was, and is, our state's record for a Tiger muskie, a hybrid cross between a muskellunge and a northern pike.”
“A "top" predator is one like a wolf, lion, or muskellunge, not normally preyed upon by anything else while alive and therefore enjoying a uniquely favored form of security.”
“Once a twenty pound muskellunge had been caught, and bass were plentiful.”
“Special emphasis is laid on outfitting for fly fishing, but full instruction is also given to the man who wants to catch pickerel, pike, muskellunge, lake-trout, bass and other fresh-water game fishes.”
“The fish were in splendid condition, and they included wall-eyed pike, pickerel, muskellunge, bass of all varieties, and great northern pike that experts said were larger than had ever before been sent anywhere for exhibition purposes.”
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
“Colonel discoursed learnedly on the superior sport of muskellunge - fishing, which prompted Bryce to enter into a description of going after swordfish among the islands of the Santa Barbara channel.”
“Vainly he hopes for the muskellunge who has just gone somewhere else, but, by the same token, the sure-enough angler is ready to go out next morning, rain or shine, at sunrise.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘muskellunge’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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From the Algonquin et al.
Words derived from the innumerable languages of native Americans and the First Nations of Canada. I want to shine some light on this underexposed etymological background to so many common (and som...
raccoon, persimmon, mummichog, caucus, bayou, caribou, geoduck, chipmunk, skunk, opossum, moose, squash and 84 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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Henry's Favorite Song
being sorts of Fish
fish, walleye, bass, catfish, carp, pike, sunfish, cod, monkfish, salmon, tuna, shark and 59 more...
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Best beasts
agouti, doodlebug, colugo, yeti crab, gribble, unau, kudu, basenji, boomslang, triantelope, acouchy, hallucigenia and 75 more...
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lunatic fringe
*interesting* -nge/-nge- words
lozenge, syringe, twinge, cringe, fringe, expunge, grunge, revenge, avenge, hinge, melange, impinge and 48 more...
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Fish
esocidae, muskellunge, pickerel, barracuda, walleye, snook, sauger, squawfish, halibut, esox
Tweets
Looking for tweets for muskellunge.
deinonychus I keep seeing this word as if it was in Swedish. Not that it makes sense, but muskelunge (Wikipedia says that's an alternate way of spelling it, but it doesn't matter, I see it in muskellunge as well) would mean muscle-kid, or perhaps muscle-offspring. So now my brain is trying to make images of what that would look like... Jan 28, 2013
knitandpurl "He swings it on the end of its wristband, made in cunningly joined armor plates. It is heavy enough to stun a muskellunge."
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, p 192 of the Avon Books paperback edition Jan 28, 2013
treeseed Nickname: Muskie Feb 6, 2008