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connie
[reduction of F inconnu unknown]
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:con(e)y
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a fresh-water food fish, Stenodus mackenzii, native to the rivers and lakes of the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, having pinkish flesh when prime and averaging about twelve pounds, though occasionally running as high as forty.
See: inconnu
Quotations
1936
In the black depths beneath them slept trout and whitefish, "conny," and Arctic grayling.
1947
The "unknown fish," or "conny" as it is more often called, looks like an overgrown whitefish and turns the scales between twenty and forty pounds.
1961
Common species are whitefish, at least two varieties of herring, smelts, and the large fish--inconnu or connie.