"cusk" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: cusks [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌsk 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. Etymology templates: {{unk|en|nocap=1}} unknown, {{ncog|no|tosk}} Norwegian tosk, {{ncog|non|thorskr}} Old Norse thorskr Head templates: {{en-noun}} cusk (plural cusks)
  1. A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme. Categories (lifeform): Gadiforms Synonyms: moonfish, torsk, tusk Synonyms (cod-like fish): brismak, brosmius Derived forms: cusk-eel Translations (cod-like fish): brosme (Danish), brosme (Estonian), brosma [feminine] (Faroese), keila (Finnish), Lumb [masculine] (German), norvég menyhal (Hungarian), keila (Icelandic), brosme [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), brosme [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), brosma [feminine] (Old Norse), brosma [feminine] (Polish), менёк (menjók) [masculine] (Russian), brosmio [masculine] (Spanish), lubb [common-gender] (Swedish)

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