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cod | cood |

As a verb cood is

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cod

English

(wikipedia cod)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) codd, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (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.
    (Mortimer)
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) A pillow or cushion.
    • (Halliwell)
    Derived terms
    * codpiece

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately the same as Etymology 1, above.

    Noun

  • A marine fish of the family Gadidae.
  • A marine fish resembling a cod of the genus Gadus , such as the .
    • Derived terms
    * bay cod * codfish * codling * cod liver oil * rock cod * shore cod

    Etymology 3

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A joke or an imitation.
    • I assume it all could just be a cod .
  • A stupid or foolish person.
    • He's making a right cod of himself.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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”.

    Verb

  • (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

    • Derived terms

    * codswallop

    Anagrams

    * * * * English invariant nouns English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    cood

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Kate Douglas Wiggin, title=Timothy's Quest, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Dere Miss vilder and sermanthy. i herd you say i cood not stay here enny longer and other peeple sed nobuddy wood have me and what you sed about the home but as i do not like homes i am going to run away if its all the same to you. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1780, author=Robert Burns, title=Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But now the supper crowns their simple board, The halesome parritch, chief of Scotia's food; The sowp their only hawkie does afford, That, 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood : The dame brings forth, in complimental mood, To grace the lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell; And aft he's prest, and aft he ca's it guid: The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell How t'was a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. }}