Well attestedNamed through a historical place-name
Bombay duck
noun · first attested 19th century
Bombay duck is a fish, dried and pungent, with no bird in it at all.
A lizardfish of South Asian coastal waters, usually salted and dried before cooking.
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- Relationship
- Named through a historical place-name
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Bombay duck
The fish, bombil to Marathi speakers, was landed and cured around Bombay, now Mumbai, and the dried slabs traveled inland by rail. The duck half is unexplained; a popular guess ties it to the mail trains, the Bombay dak, but nothing supports it.
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