cusk

cusk

See also: чушк

English

Etymology

Early 17th century; of unknown origin. Probably an alteration of torsk or tusk, a codlike fish, from Norwegian tosk, torsk; Old Norse thorskr, codfish.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌsk

Noun

cusk (plural cusks)

1. A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme.

   Synonyms: moonfish, torsk, tusk

   • 1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press (→ISBN), page 89:

     He suggested cusk, because he knew they would have it. She had never heard of cusk. “Doesn't it sound exotic!” she said. “Exotic indeed!” he laughed, and almost told her what a humdrum fish it really was, but stopped himself.

Synonyms

• (cod-like fish): brismak, brosmius

Translations

cod-like fish

Danish: brosme Estonian: brosme Faroese: brosma f Finnish: keila (fi) German: Lumb m Icelandic: keila (is) Norwegian: Bokmål: brosme (no) m or f Nynorsk: brosme f

Old Norse: brosma f Polish: brosma f Russian: менёк m (menjók) Spanish: brosmio m Swedish: lubb c

Further reading

• cusk (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• suck