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codling en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɒdlɪŋ/
Etymology
From Middle English codling, codeling, equivalent to cod + -ling.
Meanings
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A young small cod.
Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …
1922, Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, part 4, chapter 2, The Fidgit's Story
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A hake (cod-related food fish), especially one from the genus Urophycis.
Forms
Deriveds
red codling
wikidata: Q1289807
codling en · VERB · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɒdlɪŋ/
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of codle
codling en · NOUN · etymology 3
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɒdlɪŋ/
Etymology
* Some dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster online, list Middle English querdlyng, -lyng as equivalent to modern -ling.
* Some dictionaries, including Collins Online, state that the etymology is unknown.
Meanings
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A small, immature apple
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
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]: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.
1800, Hannah Glasse, Maria Wilson, “The Complete Confectioner”, in Creams, &c.:
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Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
Forms
Deriveds
codling moth