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Codling vs Godling - What's the difference?

codling | godling |

As nouns the difference between codling and godling

is that codling is a small, young cod while godling is minor divinity, a local or inferior god.

As a verb codling

is present participle of lang=en.

codling

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, young cod
  • * 1922 , Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle'', part 4, chapter 2, ''The Fidgit's Story :
    • “Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …”
  • A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus .

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 3

    * Some dictionaries including Merriam-Webster online list (etyl) querdlyng, being equivalent to modern (-ling). * Some dictionaries including Collins online list “Unknown”.

    Alternative forms

    * codlin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, immature apple
  • * 1601–02 , , Twelfth Night , act 1, scene 5:
    • Malvolio: Not yet old enough for a man, nor yong enough
    for a boy: as a squash is before tis a pescod, or a Codling
    when tis almost an Apple: Tis with him in standing water,
    betweene boy and man. He is verie well-fauour'd,
    and he speakes verie shrewishly: One would thinke his
    mothers milke were scarse out of him
  • * 1800 , Hannah Glasse and Maria Wilson, The Complete Confectioner'', ''Creams, &c. :
    • To make Codling' Cream.
    Take twenty fair '     codlings     , core them, beat them in a mortar with a pint of cream, strain it into a dish, put into it some crumbs of brown bread, with a little-sack, and dish it up.
  • Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
    • See also codling moth, which plant their lavae in apples.

    References

    * English terms with unknown etymologies

    godling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • minor divinity, a local or inferior god
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1919 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=Warlord of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=The Jeddak of Ptarth nodded his assent, but the ugly scowl that he bent upon Matai Shang harbored ill for that pasty-faced godling . }}

    See also

    * demi-god * halfgod * hero * idol * spirit

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