cod
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /kɒd/
- (US) IPA(key): /kɑd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒd
- (in General American: Rhymes: -ɑːd
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English cod, codde, from Old English cod, codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *kuddô, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew-, *gū- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Cognate with Scots cod, codd, coad, kod (“pillow, cushion”), Low German Koden, Kon (“belly, paunch”), Dutch kodde (“scrotum”), Danish kodde (“testicle”), Swedish kudde (“cushion”), Faroese koddi (“pillow”), Icelandic koddi (“pillow”).
NounEdit
cod (plural cods)
- (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (Britain, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XV:
- And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes, that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XV:
- (now rare) The scrotum (also in plural).
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.4:
- that which we call castoreum […] are not the same to be termed testicles or stones; for these cods or follicles are found in both sexes, though somewhat more protuberant in the male.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)
- (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately the same as Etymology 1, above.
NounEdit
cod (usually uncountable, plural cod or cods)
- The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
- The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) and Greenland cod (Gadus ogac or Gadus macrocephalus ogac).
- The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).
- (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.
- (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).
Usage notesEdit
The term Atlantic cod is now used where it is desired to distinguish the other members of Gadus or the Gadidae. Similar qualifiers are used to distinguish the other members, as well as the unrelated fish in the term's other senses. The plural form cod has become more common than the form cods.
SynonymsEdit
- (Atlantic cod): milwell (many variants), Scotch cod, common cod
- (Pacific cod): gray cod, grey cod, grayfish, greyfish
- (Greenland cod): ogac
- (other fish marketed as cod): haddock, whiting
- (air-dried, unsalted): stockfish
- (freshly-salted): greenfish, green fish, green cod, white cod
- (dried & salted): clipfish, salt cod, dry cod, ling, haberdine
- (unrelated major local species): hapuku
- (unrelated similar species): rock cod, rockcod, beardie (Lotella rhacina); cod icefish (the Nototheniidae); marbled rockcod (Notothenia rossii); emerald rockcod (Trematomus bernacchii); honeycomb rockcod, dwarf spotted rockcod (Epinephelus merra), Maori cod, Magellanic rockcod, blue notothenia, orange throat notothen (Paranotothenia magellanica), brown spotted reef cod, brownspotted grouper (Epinephelus chlorostigma), red rock cod, vermilion rockcod (Scorpaena papillosa); red snapper (Lutjanus spp.); vermilion seaperch, vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus); grouper (the Serranidae); thornyhead (the Sebastidae)
HypernymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
- (young): codling
- (small, obsolete): morhwell
- (consumed codlings): scrod
- (cured in lye): lutefisk
- (pancakes): bacalaito
Derived termsEdit
terms derived from cod (fish)
- Antarctic cod (Dissostichus mawsoni)
- Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)
- Atlantic tomcod (Microgadus tomcod)
- bank cod
- barramundi cod (Cromileptes altivelis, Epinephelus altivellis)
- bastard cod
- bay cod
- black cod
- black-arse cod
- Bloomfield River cod
- blue cod Parapercis colias
- bluenose cod
- breaksea cod
- brown cod
- brown spotted reef cod
- buffalo cod (Ophiodon elongatus)
- Cape Cod
- chiseltooth grenadier cod
- clam cod
- Clarence River cod
- coal cod
- cod banger, cod-banger
- codbank, cod-bank
- cod-chest
- cod chowder, cod-chowder
- codfish, cod-fish
- codfish aristocracy, cod-fish aristocracy
- codfisher, cod-fisher
- codfisherman, cod-fisherman
- cod fishery, cod-fishery
- cod fishing, cod-fishing
- cod hook, cod-hook
- cod icefish
- Cod League
- codlet
- codline, cod line, cod-line
- codling
- cod liver oil
- cod-man
- codmop, cod-mop
- cod oil, cod-oil
- cod-pitchings
- codsmack, cod-smack
- codsound, cod-sound
- Cod Wars
- cod worm (Lernaeocera branchialis)
- common cod (Gadus morhua)
- coral cod
- cultus cod, cultus-cod (Ophiodon elongatus)
- cured cod
- deep-water cod
- dry cod
- dwarf spotted rockcod
- East Siberian cod
- eastern cod
- Eastern freshwater cod
- eel cod
- emerald rockcod
- Eucla cod
- George's cod
- gray cod, graycod
- green cod
- Greenland cod (Gadus ogac)
- grenadier cod
- grey cod, greycod
- herring cod
- honeycomb rockcod
- Hook and Cod Wars
- inshore cod
- long-finned cod
- ling cod, lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus)
- lockee cod, lockee-cod
- Magellanic rockcod
- Maori cod
- marbled rockcod
- Mary River cod
- morid cod
- Murray cod
- New Zealand cod Parapercis colias
- native cod
- night cod
- Pacific cod
- pelagic cod
- pine-tree cod
- polar cod
- poor cod (Trisopterus minutus)
- potato cod
- red cod
- red rock cod
- reef cod
- Richmond River cod
- rock cod, rockcod (Lotella rhacina)
- Sacred Cod
- saffron cod
- salt cod
- Scotch cod
- shoal-water cod
- shore cod
- sleepy cod
- small-headed cod
- smallscaled cod
- soft cod (Lotella rhacina)
- tadpole cod
- tiger cod
- tomcod (Microgadus tomcod)
- tommycod (Microgadus tomcod)
- toothed cod
- trout cod
- true cod (Gadus spp.)
- unicorn cod, unicorn-cod (Bregmaceros mcclellandi)
- vermilion rockcod (Sebastes miniatus)
- white cod (Gadus morhua)
- winter cod (Microgadus tomcod)
- worm cod
TranslationsEdit
marine fish of the family Gadidae
|
|
Etymology 3Edit
Origin unknown.
NounEdit
cod (plural cods)
- A joke or an imitation.
- I assume it all could just be a cod.
- A stupid or foolish person.
- He's making a right cod of himself.
AdjectiveEdit
cod (comparative more cod, superlative most cod)
- Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
- “Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.
- Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod-classical bombast”.
- (Polari) Bad.
- 1968 March 17, Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams as Julian and Sandy, Bona Rags (Round the Horne), season 4, written by Kenneth Horne:
- Sandy: Right, right, well I'll just open the wardrobe. Oh, here, look—his wardrobe. Ha!
Julian: Ha! Oh what a naff lot!
Sandy: It is a bit cod isn't it.
- Sandy: Right, right, well I'll just open the wardrobe. Oh, here, look—his wardrobe. Ha!
- 1997, Gardiner, James, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:
- Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
- 2016 September 18, Cotton, Antony, Twitter[1]:
- Hahahahaha! @AnnaJaneCasey Vada the homi ajax, with the naff riah and the cod lally drags. Ooooo she's camp...
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
VerbEdit
cod (third-person singular simple present cods, present participle codding, simple past and past participle codded)
- (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.
Derived termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English cod, codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *kuddô, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew-, *gū- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”).
NounEdit
cod (plural cods)