Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of large herring found in Passamaquoddy Bay.

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

Etymologies

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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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Examples

  • "What's not to like about that trend?" www. quoddy.com; Dover Street Market in London will carry Quoddy for a limited time in January 2011.

    Coolhunter: Quoddy Tina Gaudoin 2010

  • I highly doubt quoddy would have or ever allow any construction overseas.

    KN | Kitsune Noir » Urban Outfitters x Quoddy Deck Shoe 2010

  • The operation we should undertake under the 45th parallel, (about Passama-quoddy,) would give us a happy occasion, too, of engaging our sister society of Boston in our views, by referring to them the execution of that part of the work.

    Letters 1760

  • 7 Comments hand made in maine. all materials from US plants. same make and materials as the regular quoddy line.

    KN | Kitsune Noir » Urban Outfitters x Quoddy Deck Shoe 2010

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