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stockfish.

Cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈstɒkfɪʃ/UK
  1. Cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle English stokfissh, stokfysch, from Middle Dutch stocvisch and/or Middle Low German stokvisch (“stick fish”), because the fish are dried on sticks or poles. Equivalent to stock + fish.

noun/ˈstɒkfɪʃ/UK
  1. The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)

    South-Africa
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Afrikaans stokvis, from Dutch stokvis.

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