codlin

Alternative form of codling (“apple”).

Noun

  1. Alternative form of codling (“apple”).
    • Ay, how fine they be in their liveries, and each of 'em as full of meat as an egg, and as sleek and as round about as a mellow codlin. - 1892, Alfred Tennyson, The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian, London; New...
    • Delicate perfumes floated through the theatre; at the penny "dukey," fried fish and hot codlins reminded you more of food than fantasy. - 1919, Thomas McDonald Rendle, Swings and Roundabouts: A Yokel in London, page 50:

Forms

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