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mus⋅quash

  [muhs-kwosh]
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–noun
Chiefly British. the fur of the muskrat.
Origin:
1770–80, Americanism; < Massachusett cognate of Western Abenaki mòskwas (perh. equiv. to Proto-Algonquian *mo⋅ŝk- bobbing above the surface of the water + *-exkwe⋅ head + derivational elements, i.e., the one whose head bobs above the water)
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mus·quash   (mŭs'kwŏsh', -kwôsh')   
n.  See muskrat.

[Perhaps of Massachusett origin; akin to Western Abenaki mòskwas.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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