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stokvis

stokvis is the alternative form of stockfish.

Meaning of stockfish

Noun (1)

stockfish (countable and uncountable, plural stockfishes or stockfish)

  1. Cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.
    • 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.1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

Noun (2)

stockfish (plural stockfishes or stockfish)

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

Forms of stokvis

pluralstokvises

Origin of stokvis

From Afrikaans stokvis, from Dutch stokvis.

Questions about stokvis

What is stokvis the alternative form of?
Stokvis is the alternative form of stockfish.

Words near stokvis in the dictionary

  1. Stoklosas
  2. Stokoe notation
  3. stokroos
  4. stokvel
  5. stokvels
  6. stokvis
  7. stokvises
  8. STOL
  9. stola
  10. stolae
  11. Stolarski

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stokvis (page history and authors); stockfish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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