cod

See also COD

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kɒd/
• (US) IPA: /kɑd/

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

Etymology 1

From Old English codd, from Proto-Germanic *kuddaz.

Noun

cod (plural cods)

1. (obsolete) A bag.
2. (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.

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.

Derived terms

• codpiece

Translations

husk or pod

• Finnish: kuori (fi)

• Persian: کیسه (fa) (kise)

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately the same as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

cod (usually uncountable; plural cod or cods)

1. A marine fish of the family Gadidae.
2. A marine fish resembling a cod of the genus Gadus, such as the rock cod.

Derived terms

terms derived from cod (fish)

bay cod codfish codling

cod liver oil rock cod shore cod

Translations

marine fish of the family Gadidae

• Aleut: ptxitax
• Armenian: ձողաձուկ (hy) (joġajuk)
• Basque: bakailao
• Bulgarian: треска (bg) (treska) f
• Catalan: bacallà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鱈魚 (cmn), 鳕鱼 (cmn) (xuěyú)

• Czech: treska (cs) f
• Danish: torsk (da) m
• Dutch: kabeljauw (nl) m
• Esperanto: moruo (eo)
• Estonian: tursk
• Faroese: toskur (fo) m
• Finnish: turska (fi) m
• French: morue (fr) f, cabillaud (fr) m
• Galician: bacallau m
• German: Kabeljau (de) m, Dorsch (de) m
• Greek: μπακαλιάρος (el) (bakaliáros) m
• Hungarian: tőkehal (hu)
• Icelandic: þorskur (is) m
• Ido: moruo (io)
• Irish: trosc (ga) m, bod donn (ga) m, bod rua (ga) m
• Italian: merluzzo (it) m
• Japanese: 鱈 (ja) (たら, tara)

• Jèrriais: mouothue f
• Korean: 대구 (daegu)
• Latvian: menca (lv) f
• Lithuanian: menkė f
• Norwegian: torsk (no) m
• Occitan: merluça (oc)
• Old Norse: þorskr m
• Polish: dorsz (pl) m
• Portuguese: bacalhau (pt) m
• Russian: треска (ru) (treská) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бака̀ла̄р (sh) m

  Roman: bakàlār (sh) m

• Slovak: treska (sk) f
• Slovene: tŕska (sl) f, polenovka (sl) f
• Spanish: bacalao (es) m
• Swedish: torsk (sv) c
• Tok Pisin: bikmaus
• Turkish: morina (tr)
• Ukrainian: тріска (uk) (triska) f
• Volapük: (male or female) gadut (vo), (male) higadut (vo), (female) jigadut (vo), (male or female offspring, young) gadutül (vo), (male offspring, young) higadutül (vo), (female offspring, young) jigadutül (vo)

Etymology 3

Origin unknown.

Noun

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.

Adjective

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”.

Translations

false, mock

• Finnish: teko- (fi)

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• codswallop

Anagrams

• CDO
• doc, Doc, DOC
• OCD
• ODC

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Middle English

Noun

cod, plural cods

1. scrotum

Derived terms

• codpiece

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Scots

Etymology

From Old Danish kodde or Old Norse koddi.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɒd/

Noun

cod (plural cods)

1. pillow