chogset

Shortening of cachogset, from an Algonquian language; probably Mohegan-Pequot cachauxet (“conner”).

chogset (plural chogsets)

1. A conner, a fish of species Tautogolabrus adspersus.

• blue perch, bergall, choggie, cunner, sea perch

• “chogset”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Goetsch, Gotches, gotches, tschego