scrod
/skrɒd
/noun North American
A young cod, haddock, or similar fish, especially one prepared for cooking.And if he's really hungry, he says he usually has some Atlantic white fish or some scrod....
- In New England, scrod are very young cod or haddock, weighing only a pound or two.
- She happily consumes her fishsticks, aka a heap of greasy breading wrapped around a three-micron-thick wafer of minced scrod.
Origin
Mid 19th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- complaint
- complaisance
- complaisant
- compleat
- complected
- complement
- complemental
- complementarily
- complementariness
- complementarity
- complementary
- complementary angle
- complementary colour
- complementary distribution
- complementary DNA
- complementary function
- complementary medicine
- complementation
- complement fixation test
- complementiser
- complementizer
- complete
- complete game
- completely
- completeness