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mum⋅mi⋅chog

[muhm-i-chog]
–noun Coastal New England.
a silver and black killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, found in fresh, brackish, and salt water along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.

Origin:
1780–90, Americanism; < Narragansett (E sp.) moamitteaũg
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mum·mi·chog   (mŭm'ĭ-chŏg')   
n.  A stout-bodied killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) of the Atlantic coast south of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, valued especially as bait.

[Narragansett moamitteaūg.]
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