daing

Etymology

From Tagalog daing.

daing means Dried fish, usually split open (though they may be left whole), gutted, salted liberally, and then sun- and air-dried. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 78 out of 100.

noun

Dried fish, usually split open (though they may be left whole), gutted, salted liberally, and then sun- and air-dried.“[…] (including drugstores, even if one could pay; food could be had only through the generosity of kindly neighbors, if one was caught flatfooted without a single can of sardines or a handful of daing).”