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
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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
Hakluyt said: "To speak of Iceland is little need; save of stockfish."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
She was leaving with small bags of cornmeal and egg yolk and two pieces of stockfish when Okoromadu arrived.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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