Also findhorn, findram, fintrum, findon, finnon. [A place-name used attrib. app. orig. the name of the river Findhorn, or of a place so called on its banks; but confused with Findon, the name of a village in Kincardineshire.] A haddock cured with the smoke of green wood, turf, or peat earth. More fully finnan-haddock (-haddie), -spelding.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Leith Races, Poems (1845), 33.
| The Buchan bodies, through the beach, | |
| Their bunch o’ findrams cry; | |
| And skirl out bauld, in Norlan’ speech, | |
| ‘Guid speldins;—fa will buy?’ |
1811. W. Thom, Hist. Aberdeen, II. 170. Findon haddocks are well known, and are esteemed a great delicacy for their delicious taste and flavour.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xxvi. The elder girl, the half-nked mermaid elsewhere commemorated, was preparing a pile of Findhorn haddocks (that is, haddocks smoked with green wood), to be eaten along with these relishing provisions.
1861. Ramsay, Remin., v. (ed. 18), 121. ‘Findon,’ or ‘Finnan haddies,’ are split, smoked, and partially dried haddocks.
1865. J. G. Bertram, The Harvest of the Sea (1873), 205. It is difficult to procure genuine Finnans, smoked in the original way by means of peat-reek.
1893. Times, 13 Dec., 3/6. Central Fish Market … Aberdeen finnons sold well.
