haddock
noun
a North Atlantic food fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the cod family.
haddocks
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pluralof haddock.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Cleethorpes-based fishing concern Grimsby Town became synonymous with inflatable haddocks, while the local gastronomic specialty of Bury was celebrated with the waving of air-filled black puddings.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2010
Meantime, as no one of these items had yet been realized, he lived in lodgings, ate toasted haddocks with his morning coffee, and smoked and read novels far into the night.
From The Uninhabited House by Mrs. J. H. Riddell
Cod, codlings, brill, haddocks, whiting, soles, herrings, cole-fish, halibut, smelts, eels, flounders, perch, pike, carp, tench, oysters, cockles, muscles, lobsters, crabs, crawfish, prawns, and shrimps.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury
My house is perpetually filled with the aroma of questionable herrings, and very pronounced haddocks.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891 by Various
The Germans do really say that Englishmen are only Sea-Germans, as our haddocks were only sea-horses.
From The Crimes of England by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
