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Haddock

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had⋅dock

[had-uhk]
–noun, plural (especially collectively) -dock, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -docks.
1. a North Atlantic food fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the cod family.
2. the rosefish, Sebastes marinus.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME haddok; see -ock
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had·dock   (hād'ək)   
n.   pl. haddock or had·docks
A food fish (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) of northern Atlantic waters, related to and resembling the cod.

[Middle English haddok.]
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haddock 
1286, of unknown origin. The suffix appears to be a diminutive. O.Fr. hadot and Gaelic adag, sometimes cited as sources, were apparently borrowed from Eng.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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