cooth

A young coalfish or saithe.

Noun

  1. A young coalfish or saithe.
    • A tinker keened like a tartan gull / At cuithe-hung doors. - 1959, George Mackay Brown, “Hamnavoe”, in Carve the Runes, Polygon, published 2021, page 17:

Origin

Probably from (unattested) Norn, cognate with Icelandic kóð (“small fry”), Norwegian kot (“small fry, young saithe”), regional Swedish kod (“small fry, young saithe”).

Forms

cooths cuith cuithe