codling
Noun
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Noun
codling (plural codlings)
- A young small cod.
- 1922, Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, part 4, chapter 2, The Fidgit's Story ↗:
- “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 ↗:
- A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus Urophycis.
- present participle of codle#English|codle
codling (plural codlings)
- A small, immature apple
- 1601–02, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ↗, act 1, scene 5:
- 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
- Malvolio: Not yet old enough for a man, nor yong enough
- 1800, Hannah Glasse and Maria Wilson, The Complete Confectioner, 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.
- To make Codling Cream.
- 1601–02, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ↗, act 1, scene 5:
- Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
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