tautog

[ taw-tog, -tawg ]

/ tɔˈtɒg, -ˈtɔg /

a black food and game fish, Tautoga onitis, inhabiting waters along the North Atlantic coast of the U.S.

Origin of tautog

1635–45, Americanism; < Narragansett (E spelling) tautaũog, plural of taut

Either Mr. Tautog had been very, very careful when he nibbled the bait, or the said bait had slipped off.

Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point |Alice B. Emerson
The tautog and perhaps some other fishes feed partly upon them.

The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide |Augusta Foote Arnold
That he is; but the fish came to about that; the tautog are worth a quarter apiece.

Little By Little |William Taylor Adams
She could remain in the cabin of the motor boat while the others were fishing off the rocks for tautog and rock-bass.

Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point |Alice B. Emerson

The flesh of a tautog is very firm, and he will live a long time out of water.

Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast |Samuel Adams Drake

tautog

/ (tɔːˈtɒɡ) /

a large dark-coloured wrasse, Tautoga onitis, of the North American coast of the Atlantic Ocean: used as a food fish Also called: blackfish

C17: from Narraganset tautauog, plural of tautau sheepshead