Definitions for tautog

tautog tau·tog

Spelling: [taw-tog, -tawg]
IPA: /tɔˈtɒg, -ˈtɔg/

Tautog is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in tautog (agottu).

Definitions for tautog

noun

  1. a black food and game fish, Tautoga onitis, inhabiting waters along the North Atlantic coast of the U.S.

Origin of tautog

1635-45, Americanism; Narragansett (E spelling) tautaũog, plural of taut

Examples for tautog

Either Mr. tautog had been very, very careful when he nibbled the bait, or the said bait had slipped off.

tautog, taw-tog′, n. a labroid fish of the United States Atlantic coast.

That he is; but the fish came to about that; the tautog are worth a quarter apiece.

She could remain in the cabin of the motor boat while the others were fishing off the rocks for tautog and rock-bass.

The flesh of a tautog is very firm, and he will live a long time out of water.

The tautog and perhaps some other fishes feed partly upon them.

Blackfish (tautog) and scup, or scuppaug, are much esteemed.

It was a damp little hollow, and Mr. tautog could not flop out into the sea again.

tautog, sir; and if you will permit me, I will leave them in the kitchen with the perch.

Word Value for tautog
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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