haddock

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So there's my pig a drownded, and my Tommy so dumb as a haddock--can't go to school, can't do nought but ate his mate and sit in the corner for all the world like a moulting hen.

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  1. noun A food fish (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) of northern Atlantic waters, related to and resembling the cod.

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  1. Middle English haddok.

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  1. from Middle English haddok, haddoke, origin unknown. The Gael, adag, locally also. attac, and prob. Old French hadot, hadon (Middle Latin hadox, a kind of salt fish), are of Middle English origin.
 

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