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Webster 1913 Edition

Stockfish

Stock′fishˊ

,

Noun.

[Cf. D.

stokvisch

.]

1.

Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.

2.

(Zool.)

Young fresh cod.

Definition 2024

stockfish

stockfish

English

Noun

stockfish ‎(countable and uncountable, plural stockfishes or stockfish)

A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
  So the Prior of Saint Botolph’s hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars’ breakfast.

Translations

cured fish

Armenian: չորացրած ձուկ ‎(čʿoracʿrac juk)
Bulgarian: чироз ‎(čiroz)
Catalan: peix assecat m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 柴魚 ‎(caai⁴ jyu⁴), 乾魚 ‎(gon¹ jyu⁴)

Mandarin: ^{(please verify)}鱈魚乾, ^{(please verify)}鱈魚亁, ^{(please verify)}鳕鱼干 ‎(xuěyú gān)
Czech: sušená treska f, sušená ryba f
Danish: tørfisk c
Dutch: stokvis (nl) m
Esperanto: sekigita fiŝo
Finnish: kapakala (fi)
French: stockfisch (fr) m, stockfish (fr) m, stokfiche (fr) m, stoquefiche (fr) m
German: Stockfisch (de) m
Hungarian: szárított tőkehal
Icelandic: harðfiskur (is) m
Ido: sika moruo (io)
Indonesian: ikan kering (id)
Inupiak: pivsi

Italian: stoccafisso (it) m
Japanese: 干物 ‎(ひもの, himono), 乾物 ‎(ひもの, himono), 干し魚 ‎(ほしざかな, hoshizakana; ほしうお, hoshiuo), 干魚 ‎(ひうお, hiuo)
Korean: 건어물 ‎(geoneomul), 乾魚物 (ko) ‎(건어물, geoneomul)
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: harde harde
Luxembourgish: Stackfësch m
Norwegian:

Bokmål: tørrfisk (no) m

Nynorsk: tørrfisk m
Polish: sztokfisz m, stokfisz m
Romanian: batog (ro) n, ștocfiș
Russian: вя́леная ры́ба f ‎(vjálenaja rýba), тара́нка f ‎(taránka), тара́нька f ‎(taránʹka)
Sicilian: pisci stoccu m
Spanish: pescado seco m
Swedish: torrfisk c
Tagalog: daing
Vietnamese: khô cá
West Frisian: stokfisk c

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans, from Dutch stokvis.

Noun

stockfish ‎(plural stockfishes or stockfish)

(South Africa) The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)

Synonyms

(Merluccius capensis): South African hake

Coordinate terms

(Merluccius capensis): deep-water Cape hake (Merluccius paradoxus)