• Codling

    Origin 1

    Full definition of codling

    Noun

    codling

    (plural codlings)
    1. A small, young cod
    2. A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus .

    Origin 2

    Verb

    codling
    1. Present participle of codle

    Origin 3

    • Some dictionaries including Merriam-Webster online list Middle English querdlyng, -lyng being equivalent to modern -ling.
    • Some dictionaries including Collins online list “Unknown”.

    Alternative forms

    Noun

    codling

    (plural codlings)
    1. A small, immature apple
      • 1601–02, William Shakespeare, 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.
    2. Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cookingSee also codling moth, which plant their lavae in apples.
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