cod
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cod, codde, of uncertain origin:
* Oldest English form cotfich as a surname in the 13th century; for more see cot (“chamber, cottage”).
* A bag or pouch, related to its bloated shape; see Etymology 2 below.
* From Latin gadus, from Ancient Greek γάδος (gádos, “cod”) with a possible pre-Greek or Semitic origin; for more see Atargatis, Cetus, and κῆτος (kêtos). Cognate with the genus name, translingual Gadus.
Inflected forms:
form: cod
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more cod
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cod
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: codding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: codded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: codded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
pos: noun
tags: informal
usually
gloss: Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
pos: noun
tags: informal
usually
gloss: Having the character of imitation; jocular.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
in-compounds
usually
examples: cod psychology
“Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.
Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod-classical bombast”.
[…] the director's vision has devolved from cod Orwell to riffing off bad girl art comic books and generally feeble posing.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: Bad.
pos: adj
tags: Polari
examples: 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.
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.
Hahahahaha! @AnnaJaneCasey Vada the homi ajax, with the naff riah and the cod lally drags. Ooooo she's camp...
gloss: To attempt to deceive or confuse; to kid.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
slang
transitive
examples: "How are you, Mary?"
"I thought your friend Mac was codding me that you would come."
gloss: To joke; to kid.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
intransitive
slang
examples: I'm only codding!
Derived words: Antarctic cod
Arctic cod
Atlantic cod
Atlantic tomcod
bank cod Nototheniidae
barramundi cod
bastard cod
bay cod
black-arse cod
black cod
Bloomfield River cod
blue cod
blue eye cod
bluenose cod
breaksea cod
brown cod
brown spotted reef cod
buffalo cod
Cape Cod
chiseltooth grenadier cod
clam cod
Clarence River cod
coal cod
cod banger
cod-banger
codbank
cod-bank
cod-chest
cod chowder
cod-chowder
cod end
codfish aristocracy
cod-fish aristocracy
codfish
cod-fish
codfisher
cod-fisher
codfisherman
cod-fisherman
cod fishery
cod-fishery
cod fishing
cod-fishing
cod hook
cod-hook
cod icefish
cod Latin
Cod League
codlet
codline
cod line
cod-line
codling
cod liver
cod liver oil
cod-liver oil
cod-man
codmop
cod-mop
cod oil
cod-oil
cod-pitchings
cod psychologist
cod psychology
cod reggae
codsmack
cod-smack
codsound
cod-sound
Cod Wars
cod worm
common cod
coral cod
cow cod soup
cultus cod
cultus-cod
cured cod
deep-water cod
dry cod
dwarf spotted rockcod
eastern cod
eastern freshwater cod
East Siberian cod
eel cod
emerald rockcod
Eucla cod
George's cod
gray cod
graycod
green cod
Greenland cod
grenadier cod
grey cod
greycod
herring cod
honeycomb rockcod
Hook and Cod Wars
inshore cod
ling cod
lingcod
lockee cod
lockee-cod
long-finned cod
Magellanic rockcod
Maori cod
marbled rockcod
Mary River cod
morid cod
Murray cod
native cod
New Zealand cod
night cod
Pacific cod
pelagic cod
pine-tree cod
polar cod
poor cod
potato cod
power cod
red cod
red rock cod
reef cod
Richmond River cod
rock cod
rockcod
Sacred Cod
saffron cod
salt cod
Scotch cod
shoal-water cod
shore cod
sleepy cod
small-headed cod
smallscaled cod
soft cod
tadpole cod
tiger cod
tomcod
tommycod
toothed cod
trout cod
true cod
unicorn cod
unicorn-cod
vermilion rockcod
white cod
winter cod
worm cod
coddy
codology
cody
Translations:
lang: Abenaki
word: nokamagw
lang: Albanian
word: meluc
lang: Aleut
word: ptxitax
lang: Arabic
word: غَادُس
roman: ḡādus
lang: Arabic
word: قُدّ
roman: qudd
lang: Arabic
word: مُورَة
roman: mūra
lang: Arabic
word: بَقَلَة
roman: baqala
lang: Armenian
word: ձողաձուկ
roman: joġajuk
lang: Asturian
word: bacaláu
lang: Bashkir
word: тәрәс
roman: tərəs
lang: Basque
word: bakailao
lang: Belarusian
word: трэска́
roman: treská
lang: Bulgarian
word: тре́ска
roman: tréska
lang: Burmese
word: ကော့ဒ်ငါး
roman: kaud.nga:
lang: Catalan
word: bacallà
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鱈魚 /鳕鱼
roman: xuěyú
lang: Cornish
word: barvus
lang: Czech
word: treska
lang: Danish
word: torsk
lang: Dutch
word: kabeljauw
lang: Esperanto
word: moruo
lang: Estonian
word: tursk
lang: Faroese
word: toskur
lang: Finnish
word: turska
lang: French
word: morue
lang: French
word: cabillaud
lang: Galician
word: bacallau
lang: Georgian
word: ვირთევზა
roman: virtevza
lang: German
word: Kabeljau
lang: German
word: Dorsch
lang: Greek
word: μπακαλιάρος
roman: bakaliáros
lang: Ancient Greek
word: καλλαρίας
roman: kallarías
lang: Ancient Greek
word: γάδος
roman: gádos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὀνίσκος
roman: onískos
lang: Greenlandic
word: saarullik
lang: Hawaiian
word: pakaliao
lang: Hebrew
word: שִׁבּוּט
lang: Hebrew
word: בָּקָלָה
lang: Hebrew
word: זְאֵב יָם
lang: Hungarian
word: tőkehal
lang: Icelandic
word: þorskur
lang: Ido
word: moruo
lang: Ido
word: gado
lang: Ingrian
word: treska
lang: Irish
word: trosc
lang: Irish
word: bod donn
lang: Irish
word: bod rua
lang: Italian
word: merluzzo
lang: Japanese
word: 鱈
roman: tara
lang: Kazakh
word: нәлім
roman: nälım
lang: Kazakh
word: сетінек
roman: setınek
lang: Korean
word: 대구
roman: daegu
lang: Latvian
word: menca
lang: Lithuanian
word: menkė
lang: Macedonian
word: ба́калар
roman: bákalar
lang: Malecite-Passamaquoddy
word: nuhkomeq
lang: Manx
word: boiddagh
lang: Middle English
word: cod
lang: Mi'kmaq
word: peju
lang: Norman
word: mouothue
lang: Norman
word: mouorue
lang: Norwegian
word: torsk
lang: Occitan
word: merluça
lang: Old Norse
word: þorskr
lang: Polabian
word: rotšară
lang: Polish
word: dorsz
lang: Portuguese
word: bacalhau
lang: Romanian
word: cod
lang: Russian
word: треска́
roman: treská
lang: Lule-Sami
word: jáddi
lang: Northern Sami
word: dorski
lang: Skolt-Sami
word: tooʹresǩ
lang: Southern Sami
word: tåårske
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: trosg
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bodach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: pollach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бака̀ла̄р
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bakàlār
lang: Slovak
word: treska
lang: Slovene
word: tŕska
lang: Slovene
word: polenovka
lang: Spanish
word: bacalao
lang: Swedish
word: torsk
lang: Tagalog
word: bakalaw
lang: Tatar
word: тәрәч
roman: täräç
lang: Thai
word: ค็อด
roman: khot
lang: Tok Pisin
word: bikmaus
lang: Turkish
word: morina
lang: Ukrainian
word: тріска́
roman: triská
lang: Vietnamese
word: cá tuyết
lang: Volapük
word: gadut
lang: Welsh
word: penfras
lang: Welsh
word: còd
lang: Yiddish
word: שטאָקפֿיש
roman: shtokfish
lang: Yiddish
word: דאָרש
roman: dorsh
lang: Zazaki
word: morina