codling

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English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English codling, codeling, equivalent to cod +‎ -ling.

Noun

codling (plural codlings)

  1. A young small cod.
  2. A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus Urophycis.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From codle +‎ -ing.

Verb

codling

  1. present participle and gerund of codle

Etymology 3

  • 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.

Alternative forms

Noun

codling (plural codlings)

  1. A small, immature apple
    • 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      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
    • 1800, Hannah Glasse, Maria Wilson, “The Complete Confectioner”, in Creams, &c.‎:
      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.
  2. Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
Derived terms

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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