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fin⋅nan had⋅die

  [fin-uhn had-ee]
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–noun
smoked haddock.
Also, finnan haddock.

Origin:
1805–15; lit., haddock of Findhorn, fishing port in Scotland; see -ie
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fin·nan had·die   (fĭn'ən hād'ē)   
n.  Smoked haddock. Also called finnan haddock.

[From alteration of Findon or Findhorn, villages of northeast Scotland.]
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Finnan haddie

Fin"nan had"die\ [See Haddock.] Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. f[i^]n"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. [Written also finnan haddock.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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