English Explanatory Dictionary

finnan haddie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Cold-smoked haddock, representative of a regional method of smoking with green wood and peat in north-east Scotland.

Word forms

finnan haddie finnan haddies finnie haddie

Etymology

Perhaps from the hamlet of Findon, Aberdeenshire, or the village of Findhorn at the mouth of the River Findhorn in Moray.

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