Cowling vs Codling - What's the difference?
cowling | codling |
A young or little cow; calf.
*2003 , David Gilet, The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales :
A removable protective covering for the engine of an aircraft, motorcycle etc
A small, young cod
* 1922 , Hugh Lofting,
A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus .
A small, immature apple
* 1601–02 , ,
* 1800 , Hannah Glasse and Maria Wilson,
Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
See also codling moth, which plant their lavae in apples.
As nouns the difference between cowling and codling
is that cowling is a young or little cow; calf while codling is a small, young cod.As a verb codling is
present participle of lang=en.cowling
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf. She continued to nuzzle and clean the little pea-green body that was blue with white patches about his cowling parts.
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(wikipedia cowling) (en noun)codling
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)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. …”
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
* codlinNoun
(en noun)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
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.
