stockfish

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈstɒkfɪʃ/

Etymology 1

From Middle English stokfissh, stokfysch, from Middle Dutch stocvisch and/or Middle Low German stokvisch (“stick fish”), since the fish were dried in the wind on wooden frames, as still happens today in Lofoten, Norway. Equivalent to stock +‎ fish.

Noun

stockfish (countable and uncountable, plural stockfishes or stockfish)

  1. A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      So the Prior of Saint Botolph’s hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars’ breakfast.
    • 1856, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations:
      We saw the codfish here in all the stages of preparation for the table and the market; the stockfish, dried in the open air, without salt; crapefish, salted and pressed
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Etymology 2

From Afrikaans stokvis, from Dutch stokvis.

Noun

stockfish (plural stockfishes or stockfish)

  1. (South Africa) The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)
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