Codded vs Nodded - What's the difference?
codded | nodded |
(cod)
(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.
(nod)
(transitive, and, intransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
(transitive, and, intransitive) To sway, move up and down.
* Keats
* 1819 "Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by." (Wordsworth, On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm )
To gradually fall asleep.
To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
(soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
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(figuratively) To allude to something.
* March 15 2012 , Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]
(slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
An instance of moving one's head as described above.
A reference or allusion to something.
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As verbs the difference between codded and nodded
is that codded is (cod) while nodded is (nod).codded
English
Verb
(head)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
* codswallopnodded
English
Verb
(head)nod
English
Verb
(nodd)- By every wind that nods the mountain pine.
- Even Homer nods .
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- Though the title nods to the Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves—and Cyril, much like the father and son in that movie, spends much of his time tracking down the oft-stolen possession—The Kid With A Bike isn’t about the bike as something essential to his livelihood, but as his sole connection to the freedom and play of childhood itself.
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Much like Mirror Mirror'', ''Huntsman'' appears to borrow liberally from other fantasy films. Sometimes the nods are clever—Stewart’s first night in the forest, among hallucinatory fog that gives the trees faces and clutching hands, evokes Disney’s animated ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs from 1937. }}
