gaspergou

[ gas-per-goo ]

noun

, plural gas·per·gous, (especially collectively) gas·per·gou.

1. freshwater drum.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gaspergou¹

1800–10, Americanism; < Louisiana French casburgot, French casse-burgot, equivalent to cass ( er ) to break + burgeau a kind of shellfish

Example Sentences

Mama cook lots of gaspergou and carp and the poisson ami fish, with the long snout—what they call gar now.

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