cod

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cod"

Translingual

Symbol

cod

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cocama.

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

a cod (sense 1.1.1.1)

From Middle English cod, codde, of uncertain origin:

See also etymology 1 of Middle English cod (“bag, pouch, sack, husk”, etc.).

Noun

cod (plural cod or cods)

  1. Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
    Synonym: codfish
    Hypernyms: Gadiformes, Anacanthini, whitefish, groundfish, demersal < fish < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature
    Hyponyms: codling, greenfish, haberdine, klipfish, ling, lutefisk, scrob, stockfish
    2. A sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).
      2. A sea fish of the genus Gadus, inclusive of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus), and Greenland cod (Gadus ogac or Gadus macrocephalus ogac).
        2. An Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
          Synonyms: common cod, milwell, Scotch cod
    3. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other not closely related fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.
    4. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other not closely related fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, such as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).
Usage notes
  • The term Atlantic cod is now used where it is desired to distinguish the other members of Gadus or the Gadidae. Similar qualifiers are used to distinguish the other members, as well as the not closely related fish in the term's other senses. The plural form cod has become more common than the form cods.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English cod, codde, from Old English cod, codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuddō, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Cognate with Scots cod, codd, coad, kod (“pillow, cushion”), German Low German Koden, Kon (“belly, paunch”), Middle Dutch codde (“scrotum”), Danish kodde (“testicle”), Swedish kudde (“cushion”), Faroese koddi (“pillow”), Icelandic koddi (“pillow”).

Noun

cod (plural cods)

  2. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
    • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie In ten centuries:
      There is a Cod, or Bag, that groweth commonly in the Fields;
    • 1685, Nathaniel Boteler, Six dialogues about sea-services between an high-admiral and a captain at sea:
      The Bunt is to a Sail,[The Bunt of a Sail.] as the Cod to a Net, being the very Pouch, or Bag of the Sail; and therefore all Sails have this Bunt,
    • 1932, The Philippine Journal of Science - Volume 48, page 410:
      Perspective view of the gear, showing important parts: b, beam; bl. belly; br, brail; bt, bating; c cod end, or bag;
  3. (UK, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
    • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:
      And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes, that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.
    • 1603, William Shakespeare, As You Like It:
      and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I tooke two cods, and giuing her them againe, said with weeping teares, weare these for my sake: wee that are true Louers, runne into strange capers; but as all is mortall in nature, so is all nature in loue, mortall in folly.
    • 1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, London: Thomas Cotes, page 226:
      1. Colutæa vesicaria vulgaris sylvestris. Ordinary Bastard Sene with bladders.
      This greater Bastard Sene groweth in time to be a tree of a reasonable greatnesse, the stem or trunck being of the bignesse of a mans arme or greater, covered with a blackish greene ragged barke, the wood whereof is harder then of an Elder, but with a pith in the middle of the branches which are divided many wayes, having divers winged leaves composed of many small round pointed or rather flat pointed leaves, set at severall distances, and somewhat like unto Licoris, or the Hatchet fitch, among which come forth yellow flowers like unto Broome flowers and as large; after which come thinne swelling cods, like unto thinne transparent bladders; wherein are conteined blacke seede set upon a middle ribbe within the bladders, which being alittle crushed betweene the fingers, will give a cracke like a bladder full of winde: the roote groweth great and wooddy, branching forth divers wayes.
    • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
      its Cods are very crooked and ill ſhaped
  4. The cocoon of a silkworm.
    • 1735, [John Barrow], “COD”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:
      As soon as it is arrived at the size and strength necessary for the beginning its cod, it makes its web; this is his first day's employment; on the second he forms his cod, and covers himself almost over with silk; the third day he is quite hid; and the following days employs himself in thickening and strengthening his cod; always working from one single end, which he never breaks himself; and which is so fine, and so long, that those who have nicely examin'd it affirm, that each cod contains silk enough to reach the length of six English miles.
    • 1750 December, “Account of the Manner of breeding Silk-worms, and procuring Silk”, in The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer:
      In seven days, the cods being finished, they are gathered and laid inheaps till they have time to wind off the silk: But they first set apart the cods designed for propagation, upon a hurdle in a cool airy place.
    • 1846, William Smellie, The Philosophy of Natural History, page 163:
      The whole moth kind, as well as the silkworm, immediately before their transformation into the chrysalis state, cover their bodies with a cod or clew of silk , though the nature of the silk , and their mode of spinning, are very different.
  5. (now rare, also in the plural) The scrotum.
    • 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.
    • 1662, Leonard Mascall, The Government of Cattel. Divided Into Three Books, page 241:
      Then let the cutter take and hold the tip of his cod in his left hand, and with a sharp knife cut the top thereof an inch long clean away.
    • 1953, Francis Leary, The Swan and the Rose, page 22:
      I went on one knee and thrust up and into his cod.
    • 2011, Ed Greenwood, Elminster's Daughter:
      Starmara made a muffled sound that might have been a bleat of alarm or might have merely been an expression of disgust, but revealed to her from-the-floor gaze was a leather cod of weary age and condition, below a long, continuous coil of coarse rope that had been wound round and round the merchant's hips, adding noticeably to his impressive girth—which shrank rapidly as the merchant tugged, hauled on the rope, then began a ponderous imitation of a dancing-lass undulating on a pedestal at a revel, shedding coils around his feet with a clumsiness that made Surth sigh and Starmara suddenly want to laugh.
  6. (obsolete or dialectal, UK, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.
    • 1823, John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize; or, The Covenanters, page 295:
      Provost Maccalzean, with the silver keys in his hand, and the eldest bailie with the crimson-velvet cod, whereon they were to be delivered to her Majesty, following as fast as any member of a city corporation could be reasonably be expected to do.
    • 1889, Sir William Fraser, Memorials of the Earls of Haddington - Volume 2, page 299:
      Item , ane long velvet cod or cusheon ;
    • 1915 [2026 November 4], Yorkshire Archæological Society, edited by John Lister, West Riding Sessions Records, fol. 148:
      Elizabeth Pitt, wife of Thomas Pitt of Haldon, clothier, Elizabeth Clerke of the same, spinster, and Jane Topliffe, wife of James Topliffe of the same, laborer, for stealing there on 1st Nov., 1640, a petticoat (parvacidam) value 4s., two children's coats value 2s., a feather bed cod value 2s., the property of Richard Bradley.
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Etymology 3

Origin unknown. Attested in reference to a person (though not always a stupid or foolish person) from the end of the 17th century. The Oxford English Dictionary (1891) notes that a suggested link to codger is unlikely, as cod appears much earlier.

Noun

cod (plural cods)

  1. A joke or an imitation.
    I assume it all could just be a cod.
  2. A stupid or foolish person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool
    He's making a right cod of himself.

Adjective

cod (comparative more cod, superlative most cod)

  2. (usually attributive, in compounds) Having the character of imitation; jocular.
    Synonyms: faux, mock
    cod psychology
    “Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.
    Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod-classical bombast”.
    • 2006 July, Kim Newman, “Ultraviolet”, in Sight and Sound, volume 16, page 78:
      […] the director's vision has devolved from cod Orwell to riffing off bad girl art comic books and generally feeble posing.
    • 2007 August 23, “Viral and virtual: A plague in a computer game may have lessons for the real world”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      READERS of The Economist may not necessarily be familiar with the “World of Warcraft”. For those who are not, it is a cod-medieval online game in which goblins and trolls, warriors and wizards, and so on act out the fantasies of some 9m players who spend the rest of their lives in the alternative world of paper and pay-packets.
    • 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC‎[1], archived from the original on 1 September 2026:
      Hynkel's anti-Semitic rants (consisting of cod-German punctuated by shouts of "Juden") are terrifying, but there is no conviction behind them, just a desperate need to distract the Tomainians from his economic failures.
    • 2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC‎[2], archived from the original on 1 October 2026:
      In place of snappy banter, there is cod philosophy about destiny and choice, and in place of Lalo Schifrin's adrenaline-pumping classic theme, there are orchestral minor chords on the soundtrack.
  3. (Polari) Bad.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bad
    Antonym: (Polari) bona
    • 1968 March 17, Kenneth Horne, Bona Rags (Round the Horne), season 4, spoken by Julian and Sandy (Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams):
      Sandy: Right, right, well I'll just open the wardrobe. Oh, here, look—his wardrobe. Ha!
      Julian: Ha! Oh what a naff lot!
      Sandy: It is a bit cod isn't it.
    • 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:
      Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
    • 2016 September 18, @antonycotton [Antony Cotton], Twitter‎[3] (post), archived from the original on 12 February 2023:
      Hahahahaha! @AnnaJaneCasey Vada the homi ajax, with the naff riah and the cod lally drags. Ooooo she's camp...
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Verb

cod (third-person singular simple present cods, present participle codding, simple past and past participle codded)

  1. (transitive, dialectal, slang) To attempt to deceive or confuse; to kid.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deceive
    • 1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 339:
      "How are you, Mary?"
      "I thought your friend Mac was codding me that you would come."
  2. (intransitive, Ireland, slang) To joke; to kid.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joke
    I'm only codding!

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary‎[4], page 124

Etymology 4

Abbreviation.

Proper noun

cod

  1. (video games) Alternative letter-case form of COD (“Call of Duty”).

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Further reading

Anagrams

Azerbaijani

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Adjective

cod (comparative daha cod, superlative ən cod)

  1. rough, coarse (of cloth, a surface, etc.)

Further reading

  • “cod” in Obastan.com.

Middle English

Etymology 1

    From Old English codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-West Germanic *koddō, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gew-t- or *gewdʰ- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”).

    The “pillow” sense is likely borrowed from Old Danish kodde or Old Norse koddi, from the same Proto-Germanic source.

    Alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈkɔd(ə)/

    Noun

    cod (plural coddes)

    2. A seedpod; a plant's natural casing for its seeds.
    3. A scrotum, ballsack; a case for the testicles.
    4. A pillow or cushion; a piece of cushioning.
    5. (rare) A sack or pouch; a case for items.
    6. (rare) The gullet, windpipe or esophagus.
    7. (rare) The chest or stomach region.
    8. (rare) A ball bearing; a metal ball acting to cushion.
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • English: cod
    • Scots: cod
    • → Middle Welsh: cot

    References

    Etymology 2

      Unknown; see English cod.

      Alternative forms

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /kɔd/

      Noun

      cod (plural coddes)

      2. cod, codfish
      Descendants

      References

      Romanian

      Etymology 1

        Borrowed from French code.

        Noun

        cod n (plural coduri)

        1. code
        Declension
        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative-accusative cod codul coduri codurile
        genitive-dative cod codului coduri codurilor
        vocative codule codurilor

        Etymology 2

          Borrowed from English cod.

          Noun

          cod m (plural cozi)

          1. (ichthyology) cod
          Declension
          singular plural
          indefinite definite indefinite definite
          nominative-accusative cod codul cozi cozii
          genitive-dative cod codului cozi cozilor
          vocative codule cozilor

          Scots

          Alternative forms

          Etymology

          From Middle English cod, from Old English codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *kuddô. The "pillow" sense is from Old Danish kodde or Old Norse koddi, from the same Proto-Germanic source.

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /kɔd/

          Noun

          cod (plural cods)

          1. A pillow or cushion.
          2. A seedpod; a plant's natural casing for its seeds.

          Welsh

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /koːd/
          • Rhymes: -oːd
          • Homophone: coed (“wood, trees”) (South Wales, colloquial)

          Etymology 1

          Inherited from Middle Welsh cot, from Middle English cod.

          Noun

          cod f (plural codau, diminutive coden)

          1. pouch, bag, poke
            Synonyms: cwd, pwtsh, ysgrepan, sach, ffetan
          2. pocket, purse
            Synonyms: poced, pwrs
          3. (anatomy) scrotum
            Synonyms: sgrotwm, ceillgwd, tancwd
          4. pod, hull, husk
            Synonyms: cibyn, plisgyn, masgl
          5. blister
            Synonyms: pothell, chwysigen
          Derived terms

          Etymology 2

          Borrowed from English code.

          Noun

          cod m (plural codau)

          1. code
          Derived terms
          • amgodio (“to encode”)
          • cod agored (“open source”)
          • cod bar (“barcode”)
          • cod ffynhonnell (“source code”)
          • cod genynnol (“genetic code”)
          • cod gwisg (“dress code”)
          • cod lliwiau (“colour code”)
          • cod moesol (“moral code”)
          • cod nodau (“character code”)
          • Cod Penyd (“Penal Code”)
          • cod post (“postcode”)
          • cod ymarfer (“code of practice”)
          • cod ymddygiad (“code of conduct”)
          • codio (“to code”)
          • codydd (“coder”)

          Etymology 3

          See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

          Verb

          cod

          1. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future of codi
          Alternative forms
          • cwyd (literary)
          • codith, codiff (colloquial)

          Mutation

          Mutated forms of cod
          radical soft nasal aspirate
          cod god nghod chod

          Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
          All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

          Further reading

          • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “cod”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
          • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cod”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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