cod

See also: COD

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /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 small bag or pouch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

2. (UK, 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?)

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) A pillow or cushion.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

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

• Abenaki: nokamagw
• Aleut: ptxitax
• Armenian: ձողաձուկ (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 (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 m
• German: Kabeljau (de) m, Dorsch (de) m
• Greek: μπακαλιάρος (el) m (bakaliáros)
• 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
• Macedonian: ба́калар m (bákalar)
• Norwegian: torsk (no) m
• Occitan: merluça (oc)
• Old Norse: þorskr m
• Polish: dorsz (pl) m
• Portuguese: bacalhau (pt) m
• Romanian: cod (ro)
• Russian: треска́ (ru) f (treská)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бака̀ла̄р m

  Roman: bakàlār m

• Slovak: treska f
• Slovene: tŕska f, polenovka (sl) f
• Spanish: bacalao (es) m
• Swedish: torsk (sv) c
• 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

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^(key): /kɒd/

Noun

cod (plural cods)

1. pillow