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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(US, dialectal, very rare) Herring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy..
[…] spending his summers along the Penobscot River and the rocky coastline, fussing with boats, hunting for clams, fishing for quoddies.
Use quoddy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Quoddy means (US, dialectal, very rare) Herring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] spending his summers along the Penobscot River and the rocky coastline, fussing with boats, hunting for clams, fishing for quoddies.
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