neshaw
English edit
Etymology edit
Narragansett neeshauog (“eels, lampreys”) or a related word.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
neshaw (plural neshaws)
- (Massachusetts, especially Martha's Vineyard, now uncommon) A silver eel.
- c. 1960, Joseph Chase Allen, The wheelhouse loafer [selections from Joseph Chase Allen's weekly longshore log, "With the fishermen", from The Vineyard Gazette, 1940-1960],page 280:
- But when fall comes, the big neshaws want to get to sea and away from here, and that’s when men catch ’em in beach pots and without bait.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:neshaw.
- c. 1960, Joseph Chase Allen, The wheelhouse loafer [selections from Joseph Chase Allen's weekly longshore log, "With the fishermen", from The Vineyard Gazette, 1940-1960],page 280: