A Scottish term for a small dark-colored fish, particularly a saithe or young coal fish.
Scottish/Northern English dialect term, from 'black' + diminutive suffix '-it' (common in Scottish), literally meaning 'a little black one.' Regional dialect word preserved in fishing communities.
Scottish English has its own set of affixes like '-it' for diminutives, showing that within English there are whole subsystems of word-building—if you spoke Scots, 'blackit' would feel as natural as 'kitty' does to English speakers referring to cats.
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