pollock

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlək/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlək/

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From Middle English [Term?], perhaps from Scots podlok.

 

 

• pollack

pollock (plural pollocks or pollock)

1. Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family.

• (P. pollachius): Atlantic pollock, European pollock, lythe
• (P. virens): Boston blues, coalfish, coley, silver bills, saithe

• Alaska pollock
• Atlantic pollock
• European pollock

pollock (third-person singular simple present pollocks, present participle pollocking, simple past and past participle pollocked)

1. To fish for pollock.

• “pollock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

•   pollock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Pollachius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
•   Category:Pollachius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From Jackson Pollock, an American artist who painted in splatters.

 

pollock (third-person singular simple present pollocks, present participle pollocking, simple past and past participle pollocked)

1. To splatter, as with paint.

• Jackson Pollock