#203256 - 11/15/11 05:47 AM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
[Re: BranShea]
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 09/21/10
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I have no idea either, never come across it. Bran...I'm upset you didn't run it as hog word  (but I'm glad you got your boldness back).
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#203263 - 11/15/11 10:45 AM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
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old hand
Registered: 11/13/11
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Loc: Lancaster, UK
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It sounds as though it should be the diminutive maternal parent of a CHOG
Edited by Rhubarb Commando (11/15/11 10:46 AM)
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#203274 - 11/16/11 06:26 AM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
[Re: BranShea]
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#203282 - 11/16/11 04:31 PM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
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Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
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A hot drink sold by street vendors at old mummers plays in England and Scotland.?? Come experts of the obscure, I was so sure olly or tsuwm would know the word right away. If not Faldage. I'm not disappointed, just a wee bit melancholic..  I esteemed your knowlegde so much!
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#203286 - 11/16/11 10:09 PM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
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It's a variety of clam found on the northern US/Canadian Atlantic coast; similar to the quahog. Sometimes spelled with two Gs, as mummichogg
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#203299 - 11/17/11 02:35 PM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
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old hand
Registered: 11/13/11
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Loc: Lancaster, UK
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Such a shame that they're silent - the world could be their oyster ...
Edited by Rhubarb Commando (11/17/11 02:35 PM)
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#203328 - 11/18/11 12:36 PM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
[Re: tsuwm]
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old hand
Registered: 11/13/11
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Hoping for a net result?
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#203361 - 11/19/11 04:52 PM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
[Re: BranShea]
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old hand
Registered: 11/13/11
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(I'd be happy if rhubrb cmmnder would give a serious hogwash, but it's best to be 10 in that game.)
Well, I am considerably more than 10!  I had three boarders promise almost immediatly that they would take part; so, ever the optimist, I have set up a Hogwash as "Rhuby's Hogwash." Roll up! Roll up! Try your luck! Win a Kupie Doll for the little lady! 
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#203363 - 11/19/11 05:21 PM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
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As dear Owlbow knows the word but does not want to tell it I'll now blow the half/hog. Now that a whole one seems to get started. fundulus heteroclitus, oftewel: mummichog mummichog Ain't she sweet.....
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#203382 - 11/20/11 03:48 PM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/03/00
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Don't know what stuwm[sic] is buzzing, but he seems to have lost his appetite for leading a round.
from your link: Mummichogs are used to stock otherwise fishless ponds that breed mosquitos, and within three days the ponds are normally mosquito free.
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#203385 - 11/20/11 04:36 PM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
[Re: tsuwm]
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Registered: 06/24/02
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Loc: Vermont
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Mummichogs are often caught in seines and minnow traps to be sold as live bait for fishermen.
All that they do for us and we sell them as bait.
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#203395 - 11/21/11 10:18 AM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
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enthusiast
Registered: 10/21/03
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Loc: Rhode Island, USA
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I was waiting, (too long), for others' inputs. My old home computer is dead. This may explain my inconsistent appearances here. As of late last evening, we have a brandy new one built by our talented son who works at the Fletcher School at Tufts. I am to set it up after work, (where I'm at now), today. We used to fish for Fluke, (but caught mostly Sea Robins), off Sandy Hook NJ using mummies for bait. Yes - I am one of the ingrates.  I knew that it was a Native American word, but no more specifics than that. Does that entitle me to half a win of this half hog? If so, may I request a rear quarter?
Edited by Owlbow (11/22/11 08:43 AM)
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#203404 - 11/21/11 02:22 PM
Re: mummichog
[Re: Owlbow]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
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You are the winner of the whole chog. I know your words are to be trusted. I did not want to keep the ½ one running with the new whole one. See Rhubarb Commando's thread ( incunabulum) Enjoy the new computer.  For the native Am. word : ETYMOLOGY: Narragansett moamitteag
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#203405 - 11/21/11 02:31 PM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
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from your link:
Mummichogs are used to stock otherwise fishless ponds that breed mosquitos, and within three days the ponds are normally mosquito free. You read my link better than I did. It also proves that you read my link before I did, how's that? 
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#203406 - 11/21/11 03:28 PM
Re: Half - a - hog / mummichog
[Re: BranShea]
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Carpal Tunnel
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from your link:
Mummichogs are used to stock otherwise fishless ponds that breed mosquitos, and within three days the ponds are normally mosquito free. You read my link better than did. It also proves that you read my link before I did, how's that? don't know about that - I just remember reading somewhere about the mosquito thing.
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