cusk
noun pl. cusk or cusks
- a large, edible gadoid fish (Brosme brosme) found in the N Atlantic
- ☆ burbot
See cusk in American Heritage Dictionary 4
cusk
noun pl. cusk cusk or
cusks - A food fish (Brosme brosme) of North Atlantic coastal waters that is related to the cod.
- See burbot.
Origin: Probably alteration of tusk, a kind of codfish, perhaps from dialectal Norwegian, variant of Norwegian torsk, tosk, from Old Norse thorskr; see ters- in Indo-European roots.
