haddock

UK/ˈhædək/US/ˈhædək/

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A haddock is a white sea fish, often smoked. Smoked haddock, haddock and chips, a fillet of haddock.

It is told from cod by a black line down the side and a dark thumbprint above the fin. Smoked haddock is the base of kedgeree and of cullen skink, and the bright yellow kind is dyed rather than more heavily smoked.

Definitions of haddock

1nounhaddockA white sea fish, often smoked.B2+
“I ordered haddock and chips at the seaside café.”

haddock is a fish.

Where it comes from

Middle English haddok, of uncertain origin, possibly from an Old French word.

Middle English
haddok
English, today
haddock

From Middle English haddok. Compare Anglo-Norman hadoc from Old French hadot, probably from an English source. Further origin uncertain, but hadot could have evolved from (h)adoux, (h)adoz, from adoub, from adouber, adober (“to prepare”), cognate with Italian addobbare (“to souse fish or meat”). The spelling is usually regarded as a diminutive in -ok (see -ock).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink

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haddock in the wild

Other smoked versions include long boneless, the filleted side of larger haddock smoked in oak chips with the skin left on the fillet.
Haddock
Other fish can be used instead of haddock such as tuna or salmon, though these are not traditional.
Kedgeree
In Scotland, kippers are often substituted for the smoked haddock.
Kedgeree
Cullen skink is a thick Scottish soup typically made of at least smoked haddock, potatoes, and onions.
Cullen skink
An authentic Cullen skink will use finnan haddie, but it may be prepared with any other undyed smoked haddock.
Cullen skink

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