Digby chicken

American  

noun

Canadian (chiefly the Maritime Provinces).

1. a smoked herring.

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Digby chicken British  

/ ˈdɪɡbɪ /

noun

1. informal dried herring

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Etymology

Origin of Digby chicken

First recorded in 1915–20; after Digby, a port in Nova Scotia

Example Sentences

It's strange that no one has given us a Digby chicken since we came here.

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Any one would suppose that the Digby chicken is the only fish that grows here; yet really and truly we haven't seen one, have we, since our arrival?

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I’ve growed to be a regular ‘Digby chicken,’ I’ve tarried here so long already.

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There’s your ‘Digby chicken’ with a vengeance!” and he pointed toward some trinkets the dealer was exhibiting to customers within.

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Tommy was the most juvenile of all the bell-boys, a lad of not more than ten, who tried to appear quite as old as these others and who now strutted forward announcing: “Yes, me and him is going out in the ‘Digby Chicken.’

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