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Quahog
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
| quahog (ˈkɔːˌhɒɡ) | |
| —n | |
| Compare soft-shell clam hard-shell clam, hard-shell, Also called: round clam an edible clam, Venus (or Mercenaria) mercenaria, native to the Atlantic coast of North America, having a large heavy rounded shell | |
| [C18: from Narraganset, short for poquauhock, from pohkeni dark + hogki shell] | |
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| Main Entry: | quahog |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See American quahog |
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Word Origin & History
quahog
1753, from an Algonquian language, perhaps Narragansett poquauhock or Pequot p'quaghhaug "hard clam."
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