Middle English Dictionary Entry
haddok n.
Entry Info
| Forms | haddok n. Also hadoke, haudok, heidok. |
| Etymology | ?ML, ?ult. Gmc. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The fish haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus); (b) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1252) Close R.Hen.III292 : c hakos recentes..et iiijxx haddokos bonos et recentes. ]
- [ (1256) Chart.B.Borough330 : Centum hadocos, si inveniantur, pro sex denariis. ]
- (1307-8) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.994 : In 100 Haddoks de Sund., 4 s. 7 d.
- (1324-5) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.385 : Tidemannus Morion pro heidokes, val. xxx s.
- (1348) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2934 : De dogdraves lx de haddok.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)47 : Take the Powche and the Lyuour of haddok, codlyng and hake and of ooþer fisshe.
- (a1422) Doc.St.Alb.in RS 28.5 pt.2 (Cld E.4)317 : Duo kodlinges, vel duo haddokes, vel sexdecim merlinges.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)449 : Take the pake of the lyver of hake, or of codlynge, or of hadok, and parboyle hit well.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)220 : Haddok, fysche: Morius.
- (1448) Shillingford149 : Item in haddokkys, xx d.
- a1450 Terms Assoc.(1) (Rwl D.328)604 : A haddok y-syded.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)596/45 : Morus, anglice, a mulberytre. Item, morus est quidam piscis, anglice, an haddock.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57433 : In whytenge and hadoke, v d.
- a1475 Herkyn to my tale (Brog 2.1)p.85 : The haudok hyde behynde, sen wolde he not be.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.41 : Take turbut, haddok, and gode codlyng.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)576 : Perche, rooche, darce, Makerelle, & whitynge, Codde, haddok by þe bak splat þem in þe dische liynge.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)169 : An Haddoke: morus.
b
- (1286) Wardrobe Acc.de Clare in Archaeol.7046 : In Exp. Henrici Haddok'.
- (1301) Sub.R.Yks.in YASRS 2153 : Johanne Haddock'.