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haddock

name · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈhædək/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ædək
  • CMU ARPABET: HH AE1 D AH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: gadid, gadiform, fish, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature

3

noun

Meaning 3

important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: gadoid, gadoid fish

4

noun

Meaning 4

lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fish

Narrower terms: finnan haddie, finnan haddock, finnan, smoked haddock

History

Etymology

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).

Across languages

Translations

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: سمك الحدوق — marine fish
  • Arabic: سمك القد — marine fish
  • Basque: eglefino — marine fish
  • Breton: azenn — marine fish
  • Catalan: eglefí — marine fish
  • Chinese Cantonese: 黑線鱈魚 /黑线鳕鱼 — marine fish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 黑線鱈 /黑线鳕 (hēixiànxuě) — marine fish
  • Czech: treska skvrnitá — marine fish
  • Danish: kuller — marine fish
  • Dutch: schelvis — marine fish
  • Faroese: hýsa — marine fish
  • Finnish: kolja — marine fish
  • French: aiglefin — marine fish
  • French: églefin — marine fish
  • Galician: peixe burro — marine fish
  • Galician: fogueiro — marine fish
  • German: Schellfisch — marine fish
  • Greek: βακαλάος (vakaláos) — marine fish
  • Hungarian: foltos tőkehal — marine fish
  • Icelandic: ýsa — marine fish
  • Ido: eglefino — marine fish
  • Irish: cadóg — marine fish
  • Italian: eglefino — marine fish
  • Italian: asinello — marine fish
  • Italian: haddock — marine fish
  • Japanese: ハドック (hadokku) — marine fish
  • Lithuanian: juodadėmė menkė — marine fish
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hyse — marine fish
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kolje — marine fish
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hyse — marine fish
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kolje — marine fish
  • Old Norse: ýsa — marine fish
  • Persian: روغنماهی کوچک — marine fish
  • Polish: łupacz — marine fish
  • Polish: plamiak — marine fish
  • Portuguese: hadoque — marine fish
  • Portuguese: haddock — marine fish
  • Portuguese: eglefim — marine fish
  • Portuguese: arinca — marine fish
  • Romanian: eglefin — marine fish
  • Russian: пи́кша (píkša) — marine fish
  • Scottish Gaelic: adag — marine fish
  • Serbo-Croatian: bakalarka — marine fish
  • Lower Sorbian: łupac — marine fish
  • Spanish: eglefino — marine fish
  • Swedish: kolja — marine fish
  • Turkish: mezgit — marine fish
  • Ukrainian: пі́кша (píkša) — marine fish
  • Welsh: corbenfras — marine fish
  • Welsh: hadog — marine fish
  • Yiddish: שעלפֿיש (shelfish) — marine fish