Home › Words › Q › quoddyquoddyquoddy · noun — herring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom the placenames, which are named for the tribe; the tribe's name is an Anglicization of their autonym, and the word is thus ultimately from Malecite-Passamaquoddy.nounHerring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy.e.g.“[…] spending his summers along the Penobscot River and the rocky coastline, fussing with boats, hunting for clams, fishing for quoddies.” — 2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, page 311:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).