Cod vs Coq - What's the difference?
cod | coq |
(obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
(UK, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:
The scrotum (also in plural).
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.4:
(obsolete) A pillow or cushion.
A marine fish of the family Gadidae.
A marine fish resembling a cod of the genus Gadus , such as the .
A joke or an imitation.
A stupid or foolish person.
Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
(slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.
A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
* 1897 , Ladies' home journal: Volume 15
* 1921 , Millinery trade review: Volume 46
* 2010 , Deborah Davis, Party of the Century
As a proper noun coq is
coquihalla.cod
English
(wikipedia cod)Etymology 1
From (etyl) codd, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
- And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes , that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.
- (Mortimer)
- 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.
- (Halliwell)
Derived terms
* codpieceEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately the same as Etymology 1, above.Noun
Derived terms
* bay cod * codfish * codling * cod liver oil * rock cod * shore codEtymology 3
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- I assume it all could just be a cod .
- He's making a right cod of himself.
Adjective
(en adjective)- “Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.
- Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod -classical bombast”.
Verb
Derived terms
* codswallopcoq
English
Noun
(en noun)- with a flat Tarn crown of heliotrope velvet, a drapery under the brim, and two flat coq feathers.
- A smart all-black model has just arrived from Jeanne Due. It is turban-trimmed with black coq which forms a bow drape.
- It was the Spanish rooster, the bird that produced coq' feathers, that sacrificed the most plumage. ' Coqs , the rooster's long, curved, and iridescent tail feathers, were plucked from the bird to trim hats or, in this case, masks.