pollock

Meanings

Noun

• Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family.

Verb

• To fish for pollock.
• To splatter, as with paint.

Related

Similar words

• Atlantic pollock, European pollock, lythe
• Boston blues, coalfish, coley, silver bills, saithe
• Jackson Pollock

Origin

• From Middle English, perhaps from Scots podlok.
• From Jackson Pollock, an American artist who painted in splatters.