English

Alternative forms

• quahaug (slightly more common until the 1950s, now uncommon)
• quohog (regional; uncommon nationally)
• cohog (regional; uncommon nationally)

Noun

quahog ‎(plural quahogs)

1. An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
   1. The largest size of quahog, generally considered only fit for use in chowders and other clam dishes.
2. A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic Cyprine, Artica islandica

Synonyms

• (Mercenaria mercenaria): hard clam, chowder clam, round clam; count neck (smallest), littleneck (small), cherrystone (smaller medium), topneck (larger medium)
• (largest size of quahog): chowder clam

Verb

quahog ‎(third-person singular simple present quahogs, present participle quahogging, simple past and past participle quahogged)

1. (intransitive) To dig for quahogs.

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 “quahog” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 “quahog” in Collins American English Dictionary, Collins
3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 “quahog” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
4. 1 2 Linguistic Atlas of New England (1939)
5. 1 2 The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914: "quahog"
6. 1 2 3 “quahog”, in the Collins English Dictionary (CollinsDictionary.com).