Coddled vs Codded - What's the difference?
coddled | codded |
(coddle)
To treat gently or with great care.
* 1855 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), (The Newcomes) , chapter 10 “Ethel and her Relations” (
* Southey:
To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
* 1697 , (William Dampier), A New Voyage Round the World , volume 1,
To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
(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.
As verbs the difference between coddled and codded
is that coddled is (coddle) while codded is (cod).coddled
English
Verb
(head)coddle
English
(wikipedia coddle)Verb
(coddl)ebook):
- How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?
- He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation.
page 222 of 1699 edition:
- It [the guava fruit] bakes as well as a Pear, and it may be coddled , and it makes good Pies.
Synonyms
* (treat gently) cosset, pamper, posset, spoil * (cook slowly) simmerDerived terms
* mollycoddleNoun
(en noun)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”.