different between pollock vs scrod

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?l?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?l?k/

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], perhaps from Scots podlok.

Alternative forms

• pollack

Noun

pollock (plural pollocks or pollock)

1. Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family.

Translations

Derived terms

• Alaska pollock
• Atlantic pollock
• European pollock

Synonyms

• (P. pollachius): Atlantic pollock, European pollock, lythe
• (P. virens): Boston blues, coalfish, coley, silver bills, saithe

Verb

pollock (third-person singular simple present pollocks, present participle pollocking, simple past and past participle pollocked)

1. To fish for pollock.

Further reading

• pollock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pollachius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pollachius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

• pollock in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

From Jackson Pollock, an American artist who painted in splatters.

Verb

pollock (third-person singular simple present pollocks, present participle pollocking, simple past and past participle pollocked)

1. To splatter, as with paint.

Synonyms

• Jackson Pollock

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

Anagrams

• cords