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Word: sauger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shame on Reader Coggin for not recognizing such denizens of U.S. folklore. The gyascutus (stone-eating variety) resembles the prock, or sidehill sauger, insofar as its telescopic legs enable it to graze easily on steep hillsides; it is unrelated, however, to the tree squeak and swamp gaboon (both offshoots of the lowly whangdoodle group), but it does claim a sort of Pilgrim kinship to the English slithy toves and borogoves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1955 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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