I. ˈkäd noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English codd; akin to Old Norse koddi pillow, testicle, Old High German kutti herd, Hittite ku-u-tar nape of the neck, upper arm, Latin guttur throat — more at cot
1. obsolete : a small bag especially for perfume
2. now dialect England : husk , pod — compare peasecod
3.
a. : scrotum
b. cods plural , dialect : testes
4. or cod end : the closed saclike terminal part of a trawl (sense 1) in which fish are trapped
5. now dialect : a bag-shaped area of water or land ; especially : the inmost recess of a bay, marsh, or meadow
II. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse koddi
chiefly Scotland : a pillow or cushion
III. noun
( plural cod also cods )
Etymology: Middle English
1.
a. : a soft-finned fish ( Gadus morrhua ) of the colder parts of the North Atlantic, being one of the leading food fishes of the world, living near the bottom of comparatively shallow water and averaging 10 to 35 pounds though occasionally attaining very large size, and being taken, chiefly with hand lines or trawl lines, mainly from certain restricted areas, as off the Norwegian and New England coasts and on the Banks of Newfoundland, where the fishes congregate at certain seasons in water of 20 to 40 fathoms' depth
b. : any fish of the family Gadidae ; especially : a member of a Pacific species ( Gadus macrocephalus ) that is closely related to the cod of the Atlantic but less common and of less commercial importance
2. : any of a number of spiny-finned fishes (especially of the groups Percoidea and Scleroparei) more or less resembling members of the Gadidae — often used with a qualifying word; see blue cod , lingcod , red cod , rock cod , tomcod
IV. verb
( codded ; codded ; codding ; cods )
Etymology: origin unknown
dialect : tease , hoax , banter , kid
V. noun
( -s )
dialect : hoax
VI. abbreviation
codex