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▪ I. haddock|ˈhædək|
Forms: 4 haddoc, 4–5 -ok, 5 hadok(e, 5–6 haddoke, 6 hadocke, 6–7 haddocke, 8 hadock, 6– haddock.
[Origin uncertain. The suffix -ock appears to be diminutive, as in bullock, dunnock, hillock, etc.
OF. hadot, pl. hados, is found in the same sense c 1250 (see Godef.), and thus earlier than our first example: it is, however, a very rare word, and, in the opinion of French etymologists, probably from English; its form suggests the Sc. haddo', haddo's. The Gaelic adag is from Eng.]
1. A fish (Gadus æglefinus) allied to the cod, but smaller, abundant in the North Atlantic and the British seas, and much used for food.
1307–8Durh. MS. Cell. Roll, MC Haddoks. 1314in Wardr. Acc. 8 Edw. II 1/12, 2 haddoks 1s. 1327Patent Roll 20 Edw. II, Salt haddoc. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 41 Take turbut, haddok, and gode codlyng. c1440Promp. Parv. 220/2 Haddok, fysche, morius. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 552/1, I knew one that shot at an hart & killed an haddoke. 1615Heywood Foure Prentises i. Wks. 1874 II. 186, I might haue fed the Haddockes. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 48 Shining..As Haddocks heads do in the dark. 1785Boswell Voy. Hebrides 26 Aug., They set down dried haddocks broiled, along with our tea. 1842Moule Her. Fish in Trench Mirac. xxviii. (1862) 387 note, A popular idea assigns the dark marks on the shoulders of the haddock to the impression left by St. Peter with his finger and thumb, when he took the tribute-money out of the fish's mouth at Capernaum.
†b. Prov. to bring haddock to paddock: to spend or lose everything, to come to destitution.
1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 82 And thus had he brought haddocke to paddocke. 1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. in Holinshed (1807–8) VI. 23, I had bene like to have brought haddocke to paddocke.
2. Applied, with or without qualification, to other allied fishes, as the Red Cod (Lotella bacchus) of New Zealand; golden haddock, the John Dory; Jerusalem h., the Opah; Norway haddock or Norwegian h., the Bergylt or Sea Perch.
1847Carpenter Zool. §556 The Sebastes, or Norway Haddock, which inhabits the northern seas, and is an important article of food. 1871Hutton Fishes N. Zealand 115 Red Cod. Also called the Yellow Tail and the Haddock.
3. Comb., as haddock-boat, haddock-curing, haddock-smoker, haddock-smoking; haddock-carrying adj.; also haddock-meat (see quot.); haddock-tea (in New England), ‘a thin chowder made of haddock’ (Cent. Dict.).
1769Pennant Zool. III. 145 The stone-coated worms, which the fishermen call hadock meat. 1883S. Plimsoll in 19th Cent. XIV. 148 Haddock-carrying vans. 1886G. R. Sims in Daily News 4 Dec. 5/6 Haddock-smoking can only be carried on in a very few places.
Hence ˈhaddocker, a person or vessel employed in fishing for haddock.
▪ II. haddock
dial. var. of hattock, a shock of corn, a stook. |