cusk

noun

ˈkəsk 

plural cusk or cusks

1

: a large edible North Atlantic fish (Brosme brosme) of the cod family

2

: burbot

Examples of cusk in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When cod is unavailable, substitute haddock, hake, cusk, tilapia, pollock, striped bass, or white sea bass. — Julia Dowling Rutland, Southern Living, 12 July 2023

Usually found in deep water, the adult gargoyle cusk eel is extremely rare and represents the only member of its genus. — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 8 June 2022

Nicknamed in various parts of North America as ling, lawyer, cusk or mud shark — the once-lowly burbot is being elevated in Minnesota from unprotected rough fish to game fish. — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021

Nautilus explorers stumbled upon a group of bone-eating worms, cusk eels, and octopi feasting on the skeleton of a baleen whale on the ocean floor near the coast of central California. — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 17 Oct. 2019

Part 5 will be an auditory treat featuring the mysterious sounds of the sea, from grunting haddock to singing cusk eels. — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2019

Enormous, near-vertical cliffs materialized, populated by squat lobsters, grenadier fish, cusk eels, and translucent tunicates. — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2016

Word History

Etymology

probably alteration of tusk, a kind of codfish

First Known Use

1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for cusk

• brusque
• busk
• dusk
• husk
• musk
• tusk