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a fish so married to smoke and chips it forgot how to be glamorous.
means A North Atlantic food fish related to cod, smaller and recognizable by the dark blotch on its side, popular smoked or fried.
from From Middle English 'haddok,' which came through Anglo-Norman 'hadoc' from Old French. Beyond that the trail goes cold — the deeper roots are genuinely uncertain, with no clear ancestor that scholars agree on.
- thumbprint
- Dark spot called St. Peter's mark on each side
- smoked alias
- Becomes finnan haddie when smoked in Scotland
- cousin clue
- A cod relative, but slimmer and milder
- deep diver
- Lives near the seabed, hunting worms and crabs
- captain too
- Tintin's furious, whisky-loving sidekick shares the name
gadus morhua — the atlantic haddock species, found in north atlantic waters from north carolina to greenland
icelandic haddock fishery — iceland's major commercial haddock industry, accounting for ~60% of north atlantic haddock catch
north sea haddock — heavily fished population off scotland and norway, managed under eu and uk quota systems