Stockfish vs Haddock - What's the difference?
stockfish | haddock |
A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
(South Africa) The (shallow-water Cape hake),
A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus , of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.
As nouns the difference between stockfish and haddock
is that stockfish is a cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt or stockfish can be (south africa) the (shallow-water cape hake), while haddock is a marine fish, melanogrammus aeglefinus , of the north atlantic, important as a food fish.stockfish
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) / (etyl) , since the fish were dried in the wind on wooden frames, as still happens today in Lofoten, Norway.Noun
- So the Prior of Saint Botolph’s hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars’ breakfast.
