cod English · revision 15249

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kɒd/ ''(UK)''; /kɑd/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Its origin is unknown.^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024) Barnhart suggests a link with the older noun cod, a bag or seed pod (from [[ang|codd]]), through codnet, probably a bag-shaped fishing net (1299),^(Barnhart 1988) and Hoad likewise wonders whether it meant a bag fish, from its appearance;^(Hoad 1986) Etymonline finds no conclusive connection with the Germanic word for bag.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The sea fish ''Gadus morhua'': 1357 in the OED and Barnhart,^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) the mid-14th century in Etymonline.^(Etymonline) It occurs earlier in a surname, Thomas cotfich, in the late 13th century (cotfish, 1273).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Codfish is from the 1560s.^(Etymonline) Cod-liver oil was known by the 1610s, recommended as a medicine from 1783, but became a popular remedy only after 1825.^(Etymonline) Cod's head was 16th-century slang for a blockhead.^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1273 – cotfish, in a surname.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1357 – cod.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1560s – codfish.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1783 – cod-liver oil as a medicine.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A large food [[fish]] of the North Atlantic, ''Gadus morhua'', related to the [[haddock]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Any of various related or similar fishes.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[codfish]]

+ * [[codling]]

+ * [[haddock]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A different word cod, a bag, husk or pod, survives in [[peascod]] and [[codpiece]];^(Hoad 1986) it also meant the scrotum from 1398.^(OED 1989)^(Hoad 1986) In Scotland and northern England dialect cod meant a pillow or cushion.^(Wright 1898)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}