Otsego bassn.
/ɒtˈsiːɡəʊ ˌbas/, U.S. /ɑtˈsiɡoʊ ˈbæs/ U.S. regional.
The lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, which occurs widely in lakes and large rivers in northern North America. Also Otsego Lake bass.
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1822 Amer. Med. Philos. Reg. 3 188 (caption) Account of the Salmo otsego or the Otsego basse.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. iv. 55 A haul of one thousand Otsego bass, without counting pike, pickerel, perch, bull-pouts, salmon-trouts, and suckers, is no bad fishing, let me tell you.
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 401 Oswego bass... This name should not be confounded with ‘Otsego Bass’ a local name for the common whitefish.
1940 C. L. Brown et al. Amer. Cooks 615 The Cooper Inn serves a fish you can't get anywhere else in America. It's the self-same Otsego Lake bass that Cooper praised in The Pioneers.
1999 W. Harman Congress. Testimony (Electronic ed.) 18 Oct. The lake also maintained large populations of cisco and lake whitefish. Both were known as Otsego bass and provided valuable commercial and recreational fisheries.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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