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finnan|ˈfɪnən|
Also findhorn, findram, fintrum, findon, finnon.
[A place-name used attrib. app. orig. the name of the river Findhorn, or of a place so called on its banks; but confused with Findon, the name of a village in Kincardineshire.]
A haddock cured with the smoke of green wood, turf, or peat earth. More fully finnan-haddock (finnan-haddie), finnan-spelding.
a1774Fergusson Leith Races Poems (1845) 33 The Buchan bodies..Their bunch o' findrams cry. 1811W. Thom Hist. Aberdeen II. 170 Findon haddocks are..esteemed a great delicacy. 1816Scott Antiq. xxvi, The elder girl..was preparing a pile of Findhorn haddocks (that is, haddocks smoked with green wood). 1861Ramsay Remin. v. (ed. 18) 121 ‘Findon,’ or ‘Finnan haddies,’ are split, smoked, and partially dried haddocks. 1873J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea 205 Genuine Finnans, smoked in the original way by means of peat-reek. 1893Times 13 Dec. 3/6 Central Fish Market..Aberdeen finnons sold well. |