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Meaning cod meaning

What does cod mean?

cod

— noun lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached — noun major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters — noun (= pod) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) — adjective (= collect) payable by the recipient on delivery a collect call the letter came collect a COD parcel — verb (= tease, razz, ride) harass with persistent criticism or carping The children teased the new teacher Don't ride me so hard over my failure His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie — verb (= dupe, fool) fool or hoax The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone You can't fool me!

COD

— adverb (= C.O.D.) collecting the charges upon delivery mail a package C.O.D.

Synonyms cod synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cod?

cod English » English

codfish twit pod gull tease taunt tantalize tantalise take in slang seedcase ride razz rally rag put one over put one across put on fool dupe collect befool bait bag wallet trick total oxygen demand swindle stooge stockfish spoof snow scrotum scrod schrod salt cod runner prodigal son pollutant load outsmart mock laugh at lampoon kingfish jeer husk hoodwink guy greensand core deride

COD English » English

cash on delivery chemical oxygen demand C.O.D. haddock sturgeon hake crack opening displacement cod Council for Ocean Development

Topics cod topics

What do people use cod to talk about?

Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Fish

What species of saltwater fish are there?

anchovy barracuda bass blackfish bonefish bream carp cod codfish crappie darter flatfish flounder gar garfish garpike goldfish grouper guppy halibut herring lungfish mackerel marlin pickerel pike piranha pollack pompano sailfish salmon sardine sea horse shad sole spearfish sturgeon sucker sunfish swordfish tarpon tuna turbot whitefish whiting wrasse

Examples cod examples

How do I use cod in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I'll take cod, please.

Cod-liver oil contains vitamin D.

Children hate cod liver oil.

Do you know how much a pound of cod is?

This tastes like cod liver oil.

My grandmother had a delicious recipe for cod.

Movie subtitles

You start helping Dan with them cod livers.

That's how we get cod-liver oil.

You're trailing me 'cause I can find cod. where you can't find half a pound of sick squid.

There's a run of cod on this bank. that Walt Cushman won't know nothing about.

Cod must be coming.

The cod will be covering this bank like herring.

I'll have babies, give them cod-liver oil and watch their teeth grow.

The cutain cod.

Cutain cod?

And cod liver oil!

Either that or a Cape Cod.

I look like a Yankee cod, but I hope I don't smell like one.

Cape Cod skeleton case.

On Cape Cod.

But this is supposed to be COD.

I'll have Higgins give them a shot of immune serum and double their cod liver oil.

No, COD.

Stop your innuendos! Should I remind you of your uncle who stole cod at the grocery.

It 'a headless cod. - Alastair is not a codfish.

Merit a punishment for married that cod.

Far away on Cape Cod, in America.

I'm gonna have babies, take care of 'em, give 'em cod-liver oil and watch their teeth grow and. and.

Cape Cod?

I want Lieutenant Moralas in the Barnstable Police Department, Cape Cod.

I wanted to bring you some cod roes from home, sir. I've been waiting for them to arrive.

Should I remind you of your uncle who stole cod at the grocery.

Cod-liver oil, Sir.

Well, I break away from everything and go tooling up to Cape Cod.

What's that smell? Oh, it's cod! That stinks.

Lake Saranac, Cape Cod. beautiful summers.

If they can't swim here they'll be glad to swim at the beaches of Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Long Island.

When I was 12 years old, my father got me a boat and I went fishing off of Cape Cod.

Here are the cod fillets.

News and current affairs

A thousand years ago, the Norse settlers of my home city of York ate cod that weighed as much as eight kilograms.

But today you would be lucky to find a cod that weighs more than two kilograms.

To see this, consider North Sea cod.

Yet left to their own devices, cod are thought to live for at least thirty years.

It is a testament to the great efficiency with which we exploit living marine resources that fish like cod are now much more likely to die at the hands of fishermen than for all other reasons put together, once they get into the fisheries.

The absence of big, old individual cod and other fish is worrisome from the standpoint of the short-term ecological health of the stock, as well its longer-term genetic health.

For example, early in the twentieth century, you would not find a mature cod in the North Sea less than about 50 centimeters in length, whereas by the 1980's mature cod were as small as 15 centimeters.

If only one change in the prevailing mindset could be made, it should be to realize that, in the case of fish like cod, big is beautiful.

Many such stocks, such as Newfoundland cod, which supported huge fisheries for centuries, have been reduced to a tiny proportion of their former levels.

A thousand years ago, the Norse settlers of my home city of York ate cod that weighed as much as eight kilograms. We know this from archaeologists and the fascination they have for medieval waste heaps.

For example, spiny dogfish is partly substituting for cod in many European fish-and-chip shops.

When the explorer John Cabot sailed off the coast of Newfoundland more than 500 years ago, vast shoals of cod slowed down his ships; crews could lower buckets over the side and fill them with fish.