quoddy

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noun

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

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Meanings

nounquoddy (plural quoddies)

plural quoddies

  1. USdialectalrareHerring, 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

Origin

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.

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APA

quoddy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quoddy

MLA

“quoddy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quoddy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quoddy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quoddy.

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