Cod

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kÉ’d/
• US IPA: /kÉ‘d/
• Rhymes: -É’d
• (in General American: Rhymes: -ɑːd

From Old English codd, from Proto-Germanic *kuddaz.

Full definition of cod

Noun

1. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
2. (UK, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
• 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XV:And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes, that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.
3. (now rare) The scrotum (also in plural).
• 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.
4. (obsolete) A pillow or cushion.

Derived terms

• codpiece

Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately the same as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

1. A marine fish of the family Gadidae.
2. A marine fish resembling a cod of the genus Gadus, such as the rock cod.

Derived terms

Origin unknown.

Noun

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

Adjective

1. Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).“Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod-classical bombast”.

Verb

1. (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

Derived terms

• codswallop

Anagrams

• CDO
• doc, Doc, DOC
• OCD
• ODC