cod

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑd/

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• Rhymes: -ɒd
• (in General American): Rhymes: -ɑːd

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”), Middle Dutch codde (“scrotum”), Danish kodde (“testicle”), Swedish kudde (“cushion”), Faroese koddi (“pillow”), Icelandic koddi (“pillow”).

cod (plural cods)

1. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.

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2. (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.

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3. (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.

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4. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.

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• codpiece

From Middle English cod, codde, of uncertain origin:

• Oldest English form cotfich as a surname in the 13th century; for more see cot (“chamber, cottage”).
• Same as Etymology 1, above; a bag or pouch, related to its bloated shape.
• From Latin gadus, from Ancient Greek γάδος (gádos, “fish”) with a possible pre-Greek or Semitic origin; for more see Atargatis, Cetus, and κῆτος (kêtos).

cod (usually uncountable, plural cod or cods)

1. The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
2. 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).
3. The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).
4. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.
5. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).

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.

• (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 (Sebastidae)

• Anacanthini
• demersal fish
• Gadiformes
• whitefish

• (young): codling
• (small, obsolete): morhwell
• (consumed codlings): scrod
• (cured in lye): lutefisk
• (pancakes): bacalaito

Origin unknown.

cod (plural cods)

1. A joke or an imitation.

   I assume it all could just be a cod.

2. A stupid or foolish person.

   He's making a right cod of himself.

cod (comparative more cod, superlative most cod)

1. 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”.

2. (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.

   • 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:

     Hahahahaha! @AnnaJaneCasey Vada the homi ajax, with the naff riah and the cod lally drags. Ooooo she's camp...

• (false, mock): faux, mock
• (bad): See Thesaurus:bad

• (bad): bona (Polari)
• (bad): See Thesaurus:bad

• (bad): cody, coddy (“bad, amateurish”)

cod (third-person singular simple present cods, present participle codding, simple past and past participle codded)

1. (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

• codswallop

• CDO, DOC, Doc, OCD, ODC, doc

From Old English codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *kuddô, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew-, *gū- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). The "pillow" sense is from Old Danish kodde or Old Norse koddi, from the same Proto-Germanic source.

• codde, kode, code

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔd(ə)/

cod (plural coddes)

1. A seedpod; a plant's natural casing for its seeds.
2. A scrotum, ballsack; a case for the testicles.
3. A pillow or cushion; a piece of cushioning.
4. (rare) A sack or pouch; a case for items.
5. (rare) The gullet, windpipe or esophagus.
6. (rare) The chest or stomach region.
7. (rare) A ball bearing; a metal ball acting to cushion.

• pesecod

• English: cod
• Scots: cod

• “cod, n.(1).” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-30.

Unknown; see English cod.

• codde, kotde

• IPA^(key): /kɔd/

cod (plural coddes)

1. cod, codfish

• English: cod

• “cod, n.(2).” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-30.

• codd, coad, kod

From Middle English cod, from Old English codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *kuddô. The "pillow" sense is from Old Danish kodde or Old Norse koddi, from the same Proto-Germanic source.

• IPA^(key): /kɔd/

cod (plural cods)

1. A pillow or cushion.
2. A seedpod; a plant's natural casing for its seeds.