Quoddy Definition & Meaning

Origin of Quoddy

From 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.

From Wiktionary

The headlands, the deep indentations and the numerous islands in the bays and beyond produce a beautiful mingling of land and sea and give to the whole ocean front the appearance of a fringed and tasselled border; west of the mouth of the Kennebec River are a marshy shore and many low grassy islands; but east of this river the shore becomes more and more bold, rising in the precipitous cliffs and rounded summits of Mt Desert and Quoddy Head, 1527 and 1000 ft.
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In fact, the Shorey family (the owners of the Quoddy name) have been in the moccasin business since Harry Smith Shorey was a hand sewer for L.L. Bean all the way back in the early 1900s.
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