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scrod (SKROD) - n., a young cod, haddock, or other whitefish.
Especially when split and boned for cooking, or sometimes now filleted. In commercial fishing, it's a classification for sales purposes, the smallest size. The origin is unknown, with many theories tossed about, the most common and staid being the past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw/scrawl/scroal, to split, salt, and dry (a young fish), itself of unknown origin, but alternatives being Dutch schrood, slice (referring to the splitting), Dutch schrot, a cull/inferior product, and an Americanism from Boston as a restaurant's made-up term for the fish of the day.
---L.
Especially when split and boned for cooking, or sometimes now filleted. In commercial fishing, it's a classification for sales purposes, the smallest size. The origin is unknown, with many theories tossed about, the most common and staid being the past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw/scrawl/scroal, to split, salt, and dry (a young fish), itself of unknown origin, but alternatives being Dutch schrood, slice (referring to the splitting), Dutch schrot, a cull/inferior product, and an Americanism from Boston as a restaurant's made-up term for the fish of the day.
---L.
