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Cod vs Nut - What's the difference?

cod | nut |

As nouns the difference between cod and nut

is that cod is a small bag or pouch while nut is a hard-shelled seed.

As verbs the difference between cod and nut

is that cod is to attempt to deceive or confuse while nut is to hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

As an adjective cod

is having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).

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

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    nut

    English

    (wikipedia nut)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hard-shelled seed.
    • There are many sort of nuts - peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
  • A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
  • * 1998 , Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95[http://books.google.com/books?id=lPYWVti6GR0C&pg=PA95&dq=bolt+%22nut+into%22&hl=en&ei=FPAWTuXGOIm08QPkl5j8Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=bolt%20%22nut%20into%22&f=false]
    • As the bolt tightens into the nut', it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and '''nut''' by setting the ' nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.
  • (slang) A crazy person.
    • He was driving his car like a nut .
  • (slang) The head.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter V , passage=Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.}}
  • (US, slang) Financial term for monthly expense to keep a venture running.
  • (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
  • * 1971 , Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:
    • My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut ,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
  • (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
  • (musical instruments, lutherie) On string instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
  • En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
  • An extravagantly fashionable young man of the 1910s and 1920s.
  • * 1914 , (w), ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts , Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:
    • ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut', are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a ' Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring [...].
  • (vulgar, slang, rarely used in the singular) A testicle.
    • I kicked him in the nuts .
  • (vulgar, slang) Semen, ejaculate.
  • An extreme enthusiast.
    • a fashion nut
    a gun nut
    a sailing nut
  • (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
  • * 2005 , Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88
    • When placing nuts', always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the ' nut can be wedged.
  • (poker, only in attributive use) Relating to the , the best possible hand on a given board.
    • a nut''' hand; a '''nut flush
  • The tumbler of a gunlock.
    • (Knight)
  • (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

    • Synonyms

    * (insane person) loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter * (the head) bonce, noodle (see further synonyms under head) * (a testicle) ball, bollock (taboo slang), nads

    Derived terms

    * coconut * groundnut * hard nut to crack * hazelnut * monkeynut * peanut * nutbeam * nutbag * nutcase * nutter * nutcracker * nutdriver * nutmeat * nutmeg * nut roast * nutshell * off one's nut * sweet as a nut * walnut

    Verb

    (nutt)
  • (UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
  • * 1999 , Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England
    • One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
  • (slang) To ejaculate (semen ).

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