Well attestedNamed from the place
Aberdeen cutlet
noun · first attested 1890s
Victorian slang for a fish dressed up with the name of a piece of meat.
A dried or cured haddock.
57.1500°N -2.1000°W · Q36405
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1890s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Aberdeen
- In English
Aberdeen cutlet
Green's Dictionary of Slang records it from 1890 and derives it plainly from the Aberdeen fishing trade, which dominated Scottish haddock curing. The joke is the mock promotion of cheap cured fish to the status of a cutlet. The nearby village of Findon gave English another haddock word, finnan haddie.
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