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English
Etymology
Probably from (unattested) Norn, cognate with Icelandic kóð (“small fry”), Norwegian kot (“small fry, young saithe”), regional Swedish kod (“small fry, young saithe”).
Noun
cooth (plural cooths)
- (Scotland, chiefly Orkney) A young coalfish or saithe.
1959, George Mackay Brown, “Hamnavoe”, in Carve the Runes, Polygon, published 2021, page 17:A tinker keened like a tartan gull / At cuithe-hung doors.