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quoddy

quoddy noun: herring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy.

Noun

quoddy (plural quoddies)

  1. (US, dialectal, rare) Herring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy.
    • […] spending his summers along the Penobscot River and the rocky coastline, fussing with boats, hunting for clams, fishing for quoddies.2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, page 311

Forms of quoddy

pluralquoddies

Origin of quoddy

From the placenames, which are named for the tribe; the tribe's name is an Anglicization of their autonym, and the word is thus ultimately from Malecite-Passamaquoddy.

Phrases with quoddy

Questions about quoddy

What does quoddy mean?
Quoddy means herring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy.
What part of speech is quoddy?
Quoddy is a noun.
What is the plural of quoddy?
The plural of quoddy is quoddies.

Words near quoddy in the dictionary

  1. quodded
  2. quoddies
  3. quodding
  4. quoddities
  5. quoddity
  6. quoddy
  7. quodilibet
  8. quodlibet
  9. quodlibetal
  10. quodlibetarian
  11. quodlibetarians

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