cod

See also: COD, còd, and C.O.D.

English

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Pronunciation

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

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

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

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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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. The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
2. The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific and Greenland cod.
3. The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock and whiting.
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 and blue cod.

Usage notes

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.

Hypernyms

• anacanthini
• demersal fish
• gadiformes
• whitefish

Synonyms

• (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, red snapper, vermilion seaperch, vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus), grouper (the Serranidae), thornyhead (the Sebastidae)

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

terms derived from cod (fish)

Antarctic cod Atlantic cod Atlantic tomcod bank cod barramundi cod bastard cod bay cod black cod black-arse cod Bloomfield River cod blue cod bluenose cod breaksea cod brown cod brown spotted reef cod buffalo cod 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 common cod coral cod cultus cod, cultus-cod 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 grenadier cod grey cod, greycod herring cod honeycomb rockcod Hook and Cod Wars inshore cod long-finned cod ling cod, lingcod lockee cod, lockee-cod Magellanic rockcod Maori cod marbled rockcod Mary River cod morid cod Murray cod native cod night cod Pacific cod pelagic cod pine-tree cod polar cod poor cod potato cod red cod red rock cod reef cod Richmond River cod rock cod, rockcod Sacred Cod saffron cod salt cod Scotch cod shoal-water cod shore cod sleepy cod small-headed cod smallscaled cod tadpole cod tiger cod tomcod tommycod toothed cod trout cod true cod unicorn cod, unicorn-cod vermilion rockcod white cod winter cod worm cod

Translations

marine fish of the family Gadidae

• Abenaki: nokamagw
• Aleut: ptxitax
• Armenian: ձողաձուկ (hy) ‎(jołajuk)
• Asturian: bacaláu m
• Basque: bakailao
• Belarusian: трэска́ f ‎(treská)
• Bulgarian: тре́ска (bg) f ‎(tréska)
• Catalan: bacallà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鱈魚 (zh), 鳕鱼 (zh) ‎(xuěyú)

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

• Korean: 대구 ‎(daegu)
• Latvian: menca (lv) f
• Lithuanian: menkė f
• Macedonian: ба́калар m ‎(bákalar)
• Norman: mouothue f (Jersey), mouorue f (Guernsey, France)
• Norwegian: torsk (no) m
• Occitan: merluça (oc)
• Old Norse: þorskr m
• Polish: dorsz (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: bacalhau (pt) m
• Romanian: cod (ro)
• Russian: треска́ (ru) f ‎(treská)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бака̀ла̄р m

  Roman: bakàlār (sh) m

• Slovak: treska f
• Slovene: tŕska (sl) f, polenovka (sl) f
• Spanish: bacalao (es) m
• Swedish: torsk (sv) c
• Tagalog: bakalaw
• Thai: ค็อด (th) ‎(khot)
• Tok Pisin: bikmaus
• Turkish: morina (tr)
• Ukrainian: тріска́ f ‎(triská)
• Volapük: (♂♀) gadut (vo), (♂) higadut, (♀) jigadut, (♂♀ offspring) gadutül, (♂ offspring) higadutül, (♀ offspring,) jigadutül
• Yiddish: שטאָקפֿיש m ‎(shtokfish)

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

Etymology

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”).

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^(key): /kɒd/

Noun

cod ‎(plural cods)

1. pillow