mummichog
- noun
- /ˈmʌmɪˌkɔg/
- US
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mummichog
- Fishermen often use mummichogs as bait when fishing in saltwater marshes.
Examples
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They seined shrimp and mummichogs along shallow shorelines.
Academic text (1990) -
Sportfishermen in the bay have used sandworms, bloodworms, nemertean tapeworms, shrimp, and mummichogs for bait.
Academic text (1990) -
In the 1980s, the only commercial bait fishing was for mummichogs on a small scale.
Academic text (1990) -
Mummichogs were caught with wire pots similar to eel pots and also baited with sot's clams.
Academic text (1990) -
A negative aspect of the licensing has been that it bars boys from earning money after school or during vacations in low-technology fisheries such as eeling, potting mummichogs, and soft clamming.
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The small mummichogs swim gracefully in the shallow waters near the coast.
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Many birds feed on mummichogs found in the tidal pools of the Atlantic coast.
Synonyms
A small silver and black fish that lives in salt marshes on the Atlantic coast, often called mummichog
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mummichog comes from a Native American Algonquian name used in New England that meant 'small fish' or 'little one'. So the old local name fits this little, tough saltwater marsh fish that people still call a mummichog today.
