scrod

Meanings

Noun

• Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish.

Verb

• To shred.
• Past of screw

Origin

• One theory derives it from scrawed, past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw, but the further origin of this word seems not to have been traced.
• Another theory derives it from an obsolete Dutch term: either from schrood, from Middle Dutch schrode, schroode, referring to the splitting of the fish; or alternatively from the related schrot, the scrod being originally a cod too small for filleting. In both of these cases, the word is ultimately cognate to shred. Compare East Frisian schrod, German Schrott.