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tau⋅tog

  [taw-tog, -tawg]
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–noun
a black food and game fish, Tautoga onitis, inhabiting waters along the North Atlantic coast of the U.S.
Origin:
1635–45, Americanism; < Narragansett (E sp.) tautaũog, pl. of taut
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tau·tog also tau·taug   (tô'tôg', -tŏg', tô-tôg', -tŏg')   
n.  A dark-colored, edible marine fish (Tautoga onitis) found along the North American Atlantic coast. Also called blackfish.

[Narragansett tautaûg.]
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tautog 
edible marine fish of the Atlantic coast of N.America, 1643, from Narragansett tautauog, pl. of taut.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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