haddock
n.n. a type of white fish that is similar to cod. It is often used to make a popular dish called 'haddock and chips'.
n. a species of whitefish in the cod family, typically found in the North Atlantic. Often used as a culinary term for the fish itself.
We ordered haddock and chips for dinner.
The local fishmonger sells fresh haddock every morning to customers who want to prepare a traditional Sunday roast.
While haddock is often marketed as a sustainable alternative to cod, its population remains vulnerable to overfishing in certain regions of the North Sea.
From Middle English haddok. Compare Anglo-Norman hadoc from Old French hadot, probably from an English source. 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).