cod

noun

1. Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
2. Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
3. Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
4. (informal, usually)Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
5. (informal, usually)Any of various types of sea fish or the meat from said fish.
6. (obsolete)A small bag or pouch.

   “There is a Cod, or Bag, that groweth commonly in the Fields;”

   “The Bunt is to a Sail,[The Bunt of a Sail.] as the Cod to a Net, being the very Pouch, or Bag of the Sail; and therefore all Sails have this Bunt,”

   “Perspective view of the gear, showing important parts: b, beam; bl. belly; br, brail; bt, bating; c cod end, or bag;”

7. (UK, obsolete)A husk or integument; a pod.

   “And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes, that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.”

   “and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I tooke two cods, and giuing her them againe, said with weeping teares, weare these for my sake: wee that are true Louers, runne into strange capers; but as all is mortall in nature, so is all nature in loue, mortall in folly.”

   “its Cods are very crooked and ill ſhaped”

8. The cocoon of a silkworm.

   “In seven days, the cods being finished, they are gathered and laid inheaps till they have time to wind off the silk: But they first set apart the cods designed for propagation, upon a hurdle in a cool airy place.”

   “The whole moth kind, as well as the silkworm, immediately before their transformation into the chrysalis state, cover their bodies with a cod or clew of silk , though the nature of the silk , and their mode of spinning, are very different.”

9. (also, archaic, in-plural)The scrotum.

   “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.”

   “Then let the cutter take and hold the tip of his cod in his left hand, and with a sharp knife cut the top thereof an inch long clean away.”

   “I went on one knee and thrust up and into his cod.”

10. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete)A pillow or cushion.

    “Provost Maccalzean, with the silver keys in his hand, and the eldest bailie with the crimson-velvet cod, whereon they were to be delivered to her Majesty, following as fast as any member of a city corporation could be reasonably be expected to do.”

    “Item , ane long velvet cod or cusheon ;”

    “Elizabeth Pitt, wife of Thomas Pitt of Haldon, clothier, Elizabeth Clerke of the same, spinster, and Jane Topliffe, wife of James Topliffe of the same, laborer, for stealing there on 1ˢᵗ Nov., 1640, a petticoat (parvacidam) value 4s., two children's coats value 2s., a feather bed cod value 2s., the property of Richard Bradley.”

11. A joke or an imitation.

    “I assume it all could just be a cod.”

12. A stupid or foolish person.

    “He's making a right cod of himself.”

13. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of cash on delivery or collect on delivery.

    “This development would probably be much facilitated were the Colony to adopt the C.O.D. (collect on delivery) system of the Cape and many other parts of the world.”

14. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of cause of death.
15. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of cerebro-ocular dysgenesis.
16. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of celebrity obsession disorder.

adj

1. (attributive, in-compounds, usually)Having the character of imitation; jocular.

   “cod psychology”

   ““Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.”

   “Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod-classical bombast”.”

   “[…] the director's vision has devolved from cod Orwell to riffing off bad girl art comic books and generally feeble posing.”

   “READERS of The Economist may not necessarily be familiar with the “World of Warcraft”. For those who are not, it is a cod-medieval online game in which goblins and trolls, warriors and wizards, and so on act out the fantasies of some 9m players who spend the rest of their lives in the alternative world of paper and pay-packets.”

2. (Polari)Bad.

   “Sandy: Right, right, well I'll just open the wardrobe. Oh, here, look—his wardrobe. Ha! Julian: Ha! Oh what a naff lot! Sandy: It is a bit cod isn't it.”

   “Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.”

   “Hahahahaha! @AnnaJaneCasey Vada the homi ajax, with the naff riah and the cod lally drags. Ooooo she's camp...”

verb

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

   “"How are you, Mary?" "I thought your friend Mac was codding me that you would come."”

2. (Ireland, intransitive, slang)To joke; to kid.

   “I'm only codding!”

name

1. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of COD (“Call of Duty”).
2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Concise Oxford Dictionary.
3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Call of Duty.

   “Let's go over to my house and play some COD.”