cod

Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.

Adjective

  1. Having the character of imitation; jocular.
    • cod psychology
    • “Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.
    • Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod-classical bombast”.

    Synonyms: faux mock

  2. 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. - 1968 March 17, Kenneth Horne, Bona Rags (Round the Horne),...
    • 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. - 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?,...
    • Hahahahaha! @AnnaJaneCasey Vada the homi ajax, with the naff riah and the cod lally drags. Ooooo she's camp... - 2016 September 18, Antony Cotton, Twitter:

    Synonyms: abysmal atrocious awful bad chronic coarse corny crap crapalicious crappy crummy deityforsaken dire disagreeable dismal dogshit dreadful fifth-rate foul fourth-rate godawful hellish hideous hopeless

    Antonyms: bona

Origin

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.

Forms

more cod most cod

Derived

coddy codology cody

Proper noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of COD (“Call of Duty”).

Origin

Abbreviation.

Related

codswallop

Noun Entry 3

  1. Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.

    Synonyms: codfish

    Hypernyms: Gadiformes Anacanthini whitefish groundfish demersal fish vertebrate animal organism creature

    1. A sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).

    2. A sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).

      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).

      Synonyms: codfish

      Hypernyms: Gadiformes Anacanthini whitefish groundfish demersal fish vertebrate animal organism creature

    3. A sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).

      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).

      An Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).

      Synonyms: codfish common cod milwell Scotch cod

      Hypernyms: Gadiformes Anacanthini whitefish groundfish demersal fish vertebrate animal organism creature

    4. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other not closely related fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.

      Synonyms: codfish

      Hypernyms: Gadiformes Anacanthini whitefish groundfish demersal fish vertebrate animal organism creature

    5. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other not closely related fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, such as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).

      Synonyms: codfish

      Hypernyms: Gadiformes Anacanthini whitefish groundfish demersal fish vertebrate animal organism creature

Origin

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.

Forms

cod cods

Derived

Antarctic cod Arctic cod Atlantic cod Atlantic tomcod bank cod Nototheniidae barramundi cod bastard cod bay cod black-arse cod black cod Bloomfield River cod blue cod blue eye 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

Noun obsolete

  1. A small bag or pouch.
    • There is a Cod, or Bag, that groweth commonly in the Fields; - 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie In ten centuries:
    • The Bunt is to a Sail,[The Bunt of a Sail.] as the Cod to a Net, being the very Pouch, or Bag of the Sail; and therefore all Sails have this Bunt, - 1685, Nathaniel Boteler, Six dialogues about sea-services between an...
    • Perspective view of the gear, showing important parts: b, beam; bl. belly; br, brail; bt, bating; c cod end, or bag; - 1932, The Philippine Journal of Science - Volume 48, page 410:
  2. 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. - 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:
    • and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I tooke two cods, and giuing her them againe, said with weeping teares, weare these for my sake: wee that are true Louers, runne into strange capers; but...
    • 1. Colutæa vesicaria vulgaris sylvestris. Ordinary Bastard Sene with bladders. This greater Bastard Sene groweth in time to be a tree of a reasonable greatnesse, the stem or trunck being of the bignesse of a mans arme...
  3. 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...
    • In seven days, the cods being finished, they are gathered and laid inheaps till they have time to wind off the silk: But they first set apart the cods designed for propagation, upon a hurdle in a cool airy place. - 1750...
    • The whole moth kind, as well as the silkworm, immediately before their transformation into the chrysalis state, cover their bodies with a cod or clew of silk , though the nature of the silk , and their mode of spinning,...
  4. 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. - 1646, Sir Thomas Browne,...
    • Then let the cutter take and hold the tip of his cod in his left hand, and with a sharp knife cut the top thereof an inch long clean away. - 1662, Leonard Mascall, The Government of Cattel. Divided Into Three Books,...
    • I went on one knee and thrust up and into his cod. - 1953, Francis Leary, The Swan and the Rose, page 22:
  5. 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...
    • Item , ane long velvet cod or cusheon ; - 1889, Sir William Fraser, Memorials of the Earls of Haddington - Volume 2, page 299:
    • Elizabeth Pitt, wife of Thomas Pitt of Haldon, clothier, Elizabeth Clerke of the same, spinster, and Jane Topliffe, wife of James Topliffe of the same, laborer, for stealing there on 1ˢᵗ Nov., 1640, a petticoat...

Origin

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”).

Forms

cods

Derived

codglove codpiece peascod

Noun Entry 5

  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.

    Synonyms: alcatote asshat arsehole asshole bayard berk birdbrain blither bobchin bonehead bozo buffoon brickhead Charlie chucklehead chowderhead chump clart clown der-brain dill pickle dim bulb dimwit dingleberry

Forms

cods

Verb

  1. To attempt to deceive or confuse; to kid.
    • "How are you, Mary?" "I thought your friend Mac was codding me that you would come." - 1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 339:

    Synonyms: abuse beglammer counterfeit deceive dissemble dissimulate feign jiff lead astray overreach put on spoof sham trick

  2. To joke; to kid.
    • I'm only codding!

Forms

cods codding codded