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Digby chicken
noun
- a smoked herring.
Digby chicken
/ ˈdɪɡbɪ /
noun
- informal.dried herring
Word History and Origins
Origin of Digby chicken1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Digby chicken1
Example Sentences
It's strange that no one has given us a Digby chicken since we came here.
Any one would suppose that the Digby chicken is the only fish that grows here; yet really and truly we haven't seen one, have we, since our arrival?
I’ve growed to be a regular ‘Digby chicken,’ I’ve tarried here so long already.
He had put on his oilskins and set his oars in readiness for the first sign of distress on the face of the waters; but he had about given up hope of his pretty “Digby Chicken.”
It scarcely needed the glass he raised to show him the “Digby Chicken” riding quietly on the water not more than half a league off shore.
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