whiting

¹ American  

[hwahy-ting, wahy-] / ˈʰwaɪ tɪŋ, ˈwaɪ- /

noun

• whiting,
  plural
• whitings
  plural

1. a slender food fish of the genus Menticirrhus, of the croaker family, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast of North America.

2. the hake, Merluccius bilinearis.

3. any of several European fishes of the cod family, especially Merlangus merlangus.

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whiting ² American  

[hwahy-ting, wahy-] / ˈʰwaɪ tɪŋ, ˈwaɪ- /

noun

1. pure-white chalk (calcium carbonate) that has been ground and washed, used in making putty, whitewash, silver polish, etc.

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whiting ¹ British  

/ ˈwaɪtɪŋ /

noun

1. an important gadoid food fish, Merlangius (or Gadus ) merlangus, of European seas, having a dark back with silvery sides and underparts

2. any of various similar fishes, such as Merluccius bilinearis, a hake of American Atlantic waters, and any of several Atlantic sciaenid fishes of the genus Menticirrhus

3. any of several marine food fishes of the genus Sillago

4. another name for bib

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whiting ² British  

/ ˈwaɪtɪŋ /

noun

1. Also called: whitening.  white chalk that has been ground and washed, used in making whitewash, metal polish, etc

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• whiting
  plural
• whitings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of whiting¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, perhaps alteration of Old English hwītling a kind of fish; compare Middle Dutch witinc, of which the English may be a translation

Origin of whiting²

1400–50; late Middle English; compare Old English hwīting-, in hwītingmelu; see meal ². See white, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

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whiting whitings

The wild fish studied included Pacific and Peruvian anchoveta, and Atlantic herring, mackerel, sprat and blue whiting -- which are all marketed and consumed as seafood.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

The species that are most frequently parasitised include salmon, tuna, squid, cod, hake, mackerel, mackerel, horse mackerel, blue whiting, sardines and anchovies.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2023

It said the fish were blue whiting, a rare species subject to quotas.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2022

This past week, the privately held company based in Ballard announced an agreement to acquire Starbound, a 300-foot catcher processor that harvests pollock in Alaska and whiting in the Pacific Northwest.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2021

People would come up the path to the house with bags of fresh-caught shrimp or a bushel of snapping blue crabs or a few whiting just off the fishing pole.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Photographs of shrimp boats and fishermen with their splendid catches of blues and whitings lined the walls from top to bottom.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Here are delicious mullets, oysters, whitings, soles, prawns, etc.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye

Is made with flounders, whitings, gudgeons, or eels.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner

Have a care, though, lest the tails of those whitings sully yon brave crimson velvet, and see the fowls thrust not their talons into that Spanish lace.

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

Salmon trout, as it is usually called, haddocks, or large whitings are carved in the same way.

From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by George Routledge