haddock

From Middle English haddok. Compare Anglo-Norman hadoc from Old French hadot, probably from an English source.^[1][2] 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”).^[3]

The spelling is usually regarded as a diminutive in -ok (see -ock).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhædək/

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• Rhymes: -ædək

haddock (plural haddock or haddocks)

1. A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.

• finnan haddie
• hake

Unadapted borrowing from English haddock.

haddock m (plural haddocks)

1. alternative form of hadoque