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Scrod
Large selection of delicious fish delivered fresh to your door.
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scrod

  [skrod]
–noun
a young Atlantic codfish or haddock, esp. one split for cooking.
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Also, schrod.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism; orig. uncert.
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Scrod
Large selection of delicious fish delivered fresh to your door.
www.legalseafoods.com
scrod also schrod   (skrŏd)   
n.   pl. scrod also schrod New England
A young cod or haddock, especially one split and boned for cooking as the catch of the day.

[Possibly from obsolete Dutch schrood, slice, shred, from Middle Dutch scrōde.]
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scrod 
1841, "young cod, split and fried or boiled," possibly from Du. schrood "piece cut off," from M.Du. scrode "shred" (cf. O.E. screade, see shred). If this is the origin, the notion is probably of fish cut into pieces for drying or cooking.
A Boston brahmin is on a business trip to Philadelphia. In search of dinner, and hungry for that Boston favorite, broiled scrod, he hops into a cab and asks the driver, "My good man, take me someplace where I can get scrod." The cabbie replies, "Pal, that's the first time I've ever been asked that in the passive pluperfect subjunctive."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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