finnan haddock

finnan haddie (ˈhædɪ)

/ (ˈfɪnən) /

noun

smoked haddock

Origin of finnan haddock

C18: finnan after Findon, a village in Scotland south of Aberdeen + haddock

Words Nearby finnan haddock

Finley
finmark
Finn
finna
finnan haddie
finnan haddock
Finnbogadóttir
finned
Finnegans Wake
finner
Finney

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How to use finnan haddock in a sentence

Finnan-haddock, fin′an-had′uk, n. a kind of smoked haddock, esp.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) | Various
I nearly got a prize, but I put 'snake-skin' down for one, and it was really a piece of the skin of a finnan-haddock.
The School by the Sea | Angela Brazil
To think that he could have other fish for breakfast than finnan haddock, and other vegetables in winter than cabbage!
Christmas Roses and Other Stories | Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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