tittymeg U.S.
(ˈtɪtɪmɛg)
Also 8 titymagg, 9 tittameg, tickomeg; attikimek, attihawmeg.
[From Amer. Indian: in Odjibway atikameg, Menominee attaikummeeg, Chippeway adikumaig: see quot. 1851.]
A whitefish of Canadian and North American lakes, Coregonus clupeiformis.
| 1748 H. Ellis Hudson's Bay 185 Called by the French, White Fish, but by the Indians and English, Titymagg. 1768 Wales in Phil. Trans. LX. 127 Fishermen up the river..brought us down plenty of pyke, mathoy, and tittymeg: these two last being fish peculiar to this country [Churchill River, Hudson's Bay]. 1851 Sir J. Richardson Arctic Search Exped. xiv. II. 51 ‘White-fish’, to which the Chippeways..have given the figurative appellation of ‘reindeer of the waters’, Adikumaig. 1879 D'Anvers tr. J. Verne's Fur Country (1890) 21 Countless legions of tittamegs. 1905 A. Haggard Bond of Sympathy 120 Even attikimek, the whitefish, this year can no longer be captured in nets. |