Another name for the black drum fish found in Atlantic and Gulf coast waters, also spelled gasgergou.
From French gaspergou, likely a corruption or regional variant related to the Gaspé region and similar fish-naming patterns. Etymology unclear but possibly from Acadian French.
Gaspergou is a mystery word—it has multiple spellings (gaspergou, gaspergo, gaspergueaux) but nobody is completely sure if it originally meant the black drum or mixed it up with related species, showing how regional fish names got scrambled through oral tradition.
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