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noun
Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-England
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verb
To shred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
simple past and past participle of screw (“have sex”)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-England, form-of, humorous, nonstandard, participle, past
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noun
young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned for cooking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: schrod
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cod, codfish
noun
flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also young haddock and pollock; often broiled
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: schrod
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fish
History
One theory derives it from scrawed, past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw (“to split and dry fish”), but the further origin of this word seems not to have been traced. Another theory derives it from an obsolete Dutch term: either from schrood (“slice, shred”), from Middle Dutch schrode, schroode, referring to the splitting of the fish; or alternatively from the related schrot (“inferior product, cull”), the scrod being originally a cod too small for filleting. In both of these cases, the word is ultimately cognate to shred. Compare East Frisian schrod (“small or worthless thing; shred”), German Schrott (“scrap”).
