neshaw

== English == === Etymology === From Narragansett neeshauog (“eels, lampreys”) or a related word. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈniʃɔ/ === Noun === neshaw (plural neshaws) (Massachusetts, especially Martha's Vineyard, now uncommon) A silver eel. c. 1960, Joseph Chase Allen, The wheelhouse loafer [selections from Joseph Chase Allen's weekly longshore log, "With the fishermen", from The Vineyard Gazette, 1940-1960],page 280: But when fall comes, the big neshaws want to get to sea and away from here, and that’s when men catch ’em in beach pots and without bait. For quotations using this term, see Citations:neshaw. === Anagrams === washen, when as, whenas