stockfish
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of stockfish
1250–1300; Middle English stocfish < Middle Dutch stocvisch. See stock, fish
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Calabria is famous for stockfish – dried cod, which is generally prepared with pasta.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020
Every time I left my guesthouse I’d stop for a $5 baccalà mantecato, pungent creamed stockfish on toast, along the pastel waterfront just off the Rialto Market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2018
On Saturday evenings, the Gondola and Cabin Bamboo dance halls still swing, and weekend picnickers jam the gleaming bay-front beaches, splashing in the surf and munching smoked stockfish.
From Time Magazine Archive
The East Central State government, which cannot run on stockfish, has a budget of approximately $80 million this year, but expects to collect only $14 million in local taxes.
From Time Magazine Archive
They sat and praised Tanzania and dreamed about stockfish and were still talking desultorily when a Peugeot 403 sped across the street.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
