cod

Plural: cod, cods

Noun

• the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
• lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached
• major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters
• An Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
• Sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, inclusive of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) and Greenland cod (Gadus ogac or Gadus macrocephalus ogac).
• Sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).
• Other not closely related fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.
• Other not closely related fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).
• The meat of any of the above fish.
• A small bag or pouch.
• A husk or integument; a pod.
• The cocoon of a silkworm.
• The scrotum (also in plural).
• A pillow or cushion.
• A joke or an imitation.
• A stupid or foolish person.

Verb

Verb Forms: codded, codding, cods

• To fool or deceive someone, often in a playful manner.
• fool or hoax
• harass with persistent criticism or carping
• To attempt to deceive or confuse; to kid.
• To joke; to kid

Adjective Satellite

• payable by the recipient on delivery
  • "a COD parcel"

Adverb

• collecting the charges upon delivery

Adj

• Having the character of imitation; jocular.
• Bad.

Name

• Alternative letter-case form of COD. ("Call of Duty")

Examples

• cod psychology
• Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod-classical bombast”.
• He's making a right cod of himself.
• I assume it all could just be a cod.
• I'm only codding!
• She tried to cod her opponent into thinking she had no vowels, but he wasn’t fooled.
• “Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.

Synonyms

bait, befool, C.O.D., cash on delivery, codfish, collect, dupe, fool, gull, pod, put on, put one across, put one over, rag, rally, razz, ride, seedcase, slang, take in, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit, Magellanic rockcod, Maori cod, Scotch cod, abysmal, awful, beardie, blue notothenia, brown spotted reef cod, brownspotted grouper, chronic, coarse, cod icefish, common cod, crap, crummy, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dreadful, dwarf spotted rockcod, emerald rockcod, faux, foul, gray cod, grayfish, grey cod, greyfish, grouper, haddock, hapuku, hideous, honeycomb rockcod, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, inferior, intolerable, loathsome, lousy, marbled rockcod, milwell, miserable, mock, naff, negative, odious, ogac, orange throat notothen, pathetic, peak, red rock cod, red snapper, rock cod, rockcod, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, sloppy, terrible, thornyhead, unfavorable, vermilion rockcod, vermilion rockfish, vermilion seaperch, whiting

Antonyms

bona

Related Words

codswallop

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