different between haddock vs scrod

English

Etymology

From Middle English haddok, from Anglo-Norman hadoc, from Old French hadot. Further origin uncertain, but hadot could have evolved from (h)adoux, (h)adoz, from adoub, from adouber, adober (“to prepare”), cognate with Italian addobbare (“to souse fish or meat”).

The spelling is usually regarded as a diminutive in -ok (see -ock).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæd?k/
• Rhymes: -æd?k

Noun

haddock (plural haddock or haddocks)

1. A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.

Related terms

• finnan haddie
• hake

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Portuguese

Noun

haddock m (plural haddocks)

1. Alternative form of hadoque

English

Alternative forms

• schrod
• (rare) escrod, scrode

Etymology

One theory derives it from scrawed, past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw (“to split and dry fish”), but the further origin of this word seems not to have been traced.

Another theory derives it from an obsolete Dutch term: either from schrood (“slice, shred”), from Middle Dutch schrode, schroode, referring to the splitting of the fish; or alternatively from the related schrot (“inferior product, cull”), the scrod being originally a cod too small for filleting. In both of these cases, the word is ultimately cognate to shred. Compare East Frisian schrod (“small or worthless thing; shred”), German Schrott (“scrap”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sk??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sk??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

scrod (plural scrods)

1. (New England, sometimes New York) Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish.

Translations

Verb

scrod

1. (transitive) To shred.

Verb

scrod

1. (nonstandard, New England, humorous) simple past tense and past participle of screw

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