Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A greenish elongated English apple used for cooking.
- n. A small unripe apple.
- n. A young cod.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. plural Green peas.
- n. An unripe apple.
- n. An apple to be stewed, or used only when stewed.
- n. One of several cultivated varieties of kitchen apple with large or medium-sized fruit.
- n. A testicle. Sylvester, Du Bartas.
- n. plural Limestones partially burnt.
- n. The young of the common cod when about the size of the whiting.
- n. A gadoid fish of the genus Phycis, as the American P. chuss and P. tenuis.
- n. A balk sawed into lengths for staves.
Wiktionary
- n. A small, immature apple
- n. Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
- n. A small, young cod
- n. A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus Urophycis.
- v. present participle of codle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A young cod; also, a hake.
WordNet 3.0
- n. young codfish
Etymologies
- codle + -ing (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of Middle English querdlyng, possibly from Anglo-Norman *querdelion, lionheart : Old French cuer, heart; see courage + de, of (from Latin dē; see de-) + Old French lion, lion; see lion. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Beyond Rush Limbaugh, the self-proclaimed "last man standing" against Obama worship, mocking Obama for, among other things, painting a wall in a homeless shelter in a call for national service as codling the poor, most criticism of Obama from the right takes the form of criticism of the financial bailout and the economic stimulus plan.”
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“Modern Technology for me is a max/min thermometer that will tell me when the biofix for the codling moth is in.”
“You start counting days after that minumum temperature and then you spray your codling killer, pyrethrin in this case.”
“Those republicans who are greedy (as most are) are given the promise of getting rich, big tax cuts, cutting crime by not codling the poor ‘black man’ and welfare queens while they kill any of them that are ‘dangerous’.”
“But in the USA our dumb ed down “for Profit” media will continue codling these folks until half of our damn population are dim witted asshats!”
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“At first I thought it was the oriental fruit moth; then I was sure it was the brown marmorated stink bug; this year I blamed codling moths.”
“• Cooking apples are distinctly tart when raw a pH around 3 and sugar content around 12%, well-balanced when cooked, and have a firm flesh that tends to maintain its structure when heated in pies or tarts, rather than falling immediately into a puree or—as in some early “codling” varieties— into a fluffy froth.”
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“Also sometimes middling turbot, with whiting, codling and large flounders; the small fish, as above, they sell in the country.”
“Other dishes were served in inventive presentations of sauces and florid concoctions of combined ingredients, from porpoise and peas in onion wine sauce, to sturgeon roe and gurnard flanks, to great plaice and codling pie in sauce vert.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘codling’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Cod
cod, code, codex, codfish, codling, inshore cod, shoal-water cod, cultus-cod, shelled peasecod, black cod, cod-liver oil, coddle and 80 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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Charlie
C
carbuncle, chimaera, catamite, carphology, chancre, coprolalia, callipygian, concupiscence, coeval, codling, clitic, cojones and 39 more...
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Islands of New York City
coney, staten, city, manhattan, ellis, governors, hart, liberty, long, roosevelt, hoffman, swinburne and 29 more...
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baby and neutered animal names
joey, cygnet, calf, kid, pup, cub, fledgling, duckling, fry, gosling, nymph, chick and 62 more...
Tweets
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