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quoddy ‎(plural quoddies)

(US, dialectal, very rare) Herring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy.
- 2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, page 311:
  […] spending his summers along the Penobscot River and the rocky coastline, fussing with boats, hunting for clams, fishing for quoddies.