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cod¹
- /kɒd/ UK
- /kɔd/ Australia, British, Scotland
- /kɑd/ US
Sounds like cawed (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒd
Where it comes from
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”).
* A bag or pouch, related to its bloated shape; see Etymology 2 below.
* From Latin gadus, from Ancient Greek γάδος (gádos, “cod”) with a possible pre-Greek or Semitic origin; for more see Atargatis, Cetus, and κῆτος (kêtos). Cognate with the genus name, translingual Gadus.
noun cod · cods
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A sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).
Similar: codfish
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A sea fish of the genus Gadus, inclusive of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus), and Greenland cod (Gadus ogac or Gadus macrocephalus ogac).
Similar: codfish
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An Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
Similar: codfish, common cod, milwell, Scotch cod
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Other not closely related fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.
Similar: codfish
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Other not closely related fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, such as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).
Similar: codfish
cod²
- /kɒd/ UK
- /kɔd/ Australia, British, Scotland
- /kɑd/ US
Sounds like cawed (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒd
Where it comes from
From Middle English cod, codde, from Old English cod, codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuddō, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Cognate with Scots cod, codd, coad, kod (“pillow, cushion”), German Low German Koden, Kon (“belly, paunch”), Middle Dutch codde (“scrotum”), Danish kodde (“testicle”), Swedish kudde (“cushion”), Faroese koddi (“pillow”), Icelandic koddi (“pillow”).
noun cods
- A small bag or pouch. There is a Cod, or Bag, that groweth commonly in the Fields;
- A husk or integument; a pod. And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes, that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.
- The cocoon of a silkworm. As soon as it is arrived at the size and strength necessary for the beginning its cod, it makes its web; this is his first day's employment; on the second he forms his cod, and covers himself almost over with silk; the third day he is quite hid; and the following days employs himself in thickening a
- The scrotum. 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.
- A pillow or cushion. Provost Maccalzean, with the silver keys in his hand, and the eldest bailie with the crimson-velvet cod, whereon they were to be delivered to her Majesty, following as fast as any member of a city corporation could be reasonably be expected to do.
cod³
- /kɒd/ UK
- /kɔd/ Australia, British, Scotland
- /kɑd/ US
Sounds like cawed (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒd
Where it comes from
Origin unknown. Attested in reference to a person (though not always a stupid or foolish person) from the end of the 17th century. The Oxford English Dictionary (1891) notes that a suggested link to codger is unlikely, as cod appears much earlier.
noun cods
adjective more cod · most cod
- Having the character of imitation; jocular. cod psychology
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Bad.
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.
Similar: abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious, crappy, crummy, deityforsaken · Opposite: bona
verb cods · codding · codded
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To attempt to deceive or confuse; to kid.
"How are you, Mary?"
"I thought your friend Mac was codding me that you would come."
Similar: abuse, beglammer, counterfeit, deceive, catch, trap into, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, jiff, lead astray, overreach
- To joke; to kid. I'm only codding!
cod⁴
- /kɒd/ UK
- /kɔd/ Australia, British, Scotland
- /kɑd/ US
Sounds like cawed (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒd
Where it comes from
Abbreviation.
proper noun
- Alternative letter-case form of COD (“Call of Duty”).
COD⁵
proper noun CoD · C.O.D.
- Acronym of Concise Oxford Dictionary
- Acronym of Call of Duty Let's go over to my house and play some COD.
noun CODs · CoD · C.O.D.
- Initialism of cash on delivery or collect on delivery This development would probably be much facilitated were the Colony to adopt the C.O.D. (collect on delivery) system of the Cape and many other parts of the world.
- Initialism of cause of death
- Initialism of cerebro-ocular dysgenesis
- Initialism of celebrity obsession disorder
- Initialism of code of discipline
- Initialism of committee on discipline
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: put on, ride, tease, collect, rag, rally, take in, tantalize, bait, befool, dupe, taunt, pod, seedcase, slang, due
Translations
Every language
noun any marine fish of the family Gadidae
| Español | bacalao |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 대구 daegu |
| 日本語 | 鱈 tara |
| 中文 | 鱈魚 /鳕鱼 xuěyú |
| Português | bacalhau |
| Français | morue, cabillaud |
| Deutsch | Kabeljau, Dorsch |
| Italiano | merluzzo |
| Ελληνικά | μπακαλιάρος bakaliáros |
| Română | cod |
| Русский | треска́ treská |
| Tiếng Việt | cá tuyết |
| العربية | غَادُس ḡādus, قُدّ qudd, مُورَة mūra, بَقَلَة baqala |
| עברית | שִׁבּוּט, בָּקָלָה, זְאֵב יָם |
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title = {cod},
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