单词 | tautog |
释义 | tautogn. A bottom-dwelling marine fish, Tautoga onitis (family Labridae), with blotched brown and white coloration, found off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular (esp. formerly) as a game and food fish. Also called blackfish, oysterfish.Quot. 1643 apparently shows identification of Narragansett tautaũog with a different fish: cf. sheep's head n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish dogdrave1227 lamprey1297 lingc1300 loach1357 tench1390 carpc1440 rougetc1485 anchovy1582 pompano1598 tai1620 alewife1633 tug-whitingc1650 weakfish1686 ten-pounder1699 fire-flaira1705 tusk1707 porgy1725 katsuo1727 rockfish1731 tautog1750 sea bass1765 Albany beef1779 sable1810 Murray cod1843 paradise fish1858 spot1864 strawberry bass1867 nannygai1871 maomao1873 spotfish1875 strawberry perch1877 milkfish1880 tarwhine1880 tile-fish1881 latchett1882 tile1893 anago1895 flake1906 branzino1915 rascasse1921 lampuki1925 red fish1951 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > tautog tautog1750 blackfish1842 oysterfish1855 nipper1884 1643 R. Williams Key into Lang. Amer. xix. 105* Taut-aũog. Sheeps-heads.] 1750 J. Birket Jrnl. 3 Oct. in Some Remarks Voy. N. Amer. (1916) 31 An ill natured Scold..gave us Potatoes & Tatogue. 1778 W. Ellery Let. 26 Aug. in J. Sanderson Biogr. Signers Declar. Independence (1831) 1 381 Notwithstanding the French fleet hath deserted you, yet still I hope to eat tautaug with you in Newport. 1802 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VIII. 191 A few tautaug are caught in Town cove. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xviii. 293 Real turtle, we understand, and salmon, tautog, canvas-backs, pig, English mutton. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 288 ‘Tautog’ would consequently seem to be a word from the dialect of the Narragansett Indians. 1921 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 454/1 The tautog is not exactly a game fish, but he is a stubborn fighter, and when he runs to good size—my best was fourteen pounds—takes some pulling. 1968 J. Hay Sandy Shore ix. 42 Little rock crabs will often be found in this environment along with small fish, such as the cunners, tautog and sculpin. 2012 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 6 Sept. (Sports section) 39 Tautog have been hitting well on green crabs or clams around any structure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1750 |
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