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cod | tod |

In obsolete terms the difference between cod and tod

is that cod is a pillow or cushion while tod is to weigh; to yield in tods.

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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    tod

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fox.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • the wolf, the tod , the brock
  • * Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
    • Who am Ah? Ah'm tod , whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
  • # A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
  • Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
    • Related terms
    * *

    Etymology 2

    Apparently cognate with East Frisian .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bush; used especially of ivy .
  • * '', Act 4, Scene 2, 1997 , Lois Potter (editor), ''The Two Noble Kinsmen , page 277,
    • His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods , / Not to undo with thunder.
  • * Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
  • An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
  • * 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , Volume 27, p. 202:
    • Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 209:
    • Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.

    Verb

    (todd)
  • (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.

    • Anagrams

    * English terms with unknown etymologies ----