Digby chicken noun a smoked, salted small herring CANADA Digby is a fishing port on the west (Fundy) shore of Nova Scotia.
Digby chicken is a tiny herring that is smoked and salted. Maritimers call fillets of the little fish Digby chips. — Bill Casselman, CanadianWords, p. 71, 1995
Like the Frenchman says, the herring, before they take the heads off and the guts out. — Lewis Poteet, TheSouthShorePhraseBook, p. 37, 1999