scrod

Meaning

Any cod, pollock, haddock, or other whitefish.

schrod

chat haddock

snapper haddock

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɹɑd/

One theory derives it from scrawed, past participle of Cornwall dialect scraw (“to split and dry fish”), 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 (“slice, shred”), from Middle Dutch schrode, schroode, referring to the splitting of the fish; or alternatively from the related schrot (“inferior product, cull”), 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 (“small or worthless thing; shred”), German Schrott (“scrap”).

Cognate with German

Schrott

New

screw

1. A device that has a helical function.
2. A device that has a helical function.
3. A device that has a helical function.
4. A device that has a helical function.
5. A device that has a helical function.
6. The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
7. (slang) A prison guard.
8. (slang) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
9. (slang) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
10. (slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
11. (slang) A casual sexual partner.
12. (slang) Salary, wages.
13. Backspin.
14. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
15. An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
16. A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
17. An amphipod crustacean.
18. (informal) Rheumatism.