cod

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to fool or hoax

   I had to cod the guard in order to sneak in.

2. 2
   noun

   A small bag or pouch.

   There is a Cod, or Bag, that groweth commonly in the Fields;

3. 3
   noun

   A husk or integument; a pod.

   And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes, that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.

4. 4
   noun

   The cocoon of a silkworm.

   As soon as it is arrived at the size and strength necessary for the beginning its cod, it makes its web; this is his first day's employment; on the second he forms his cod, and covers himself almost over with silk; the third day he is quite hid; and the following days employs himself in thickening and strengthening his cod; always working from one single end, which he never breaks himself; and which is so fine, and so long, that those who have nicely examin'd it affirm, that each cod contains silk enough to reach the length of six English miles.

5. 5
   noun

   The scrotum.

   that which we call castoreum […] are not the same to be termed testicles or stones; for these cods or follicles are found in both sexes, though somewhat more protuberant in the male.

6. 6
   noun

   A pillow or cushion.

   Provost Maccalzean, with the silver keys in his hand, and the eldest bailie with the crimson-velvet cod, whereon they were to be delivered to her Majesty, following as fast as any member of a city corporation could be reasonably be expected to do.

7. 7
   noun

   A joke or an imitation.

   I assume it all could just be a cod.

8. 8
   noun

   A stupid or foolish person.

   He's making a right cod of himself.

Etymology

From Middle English cod, codde, from Old English cod, codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuddō, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Cognate with Scots cod, codd, coad, kod (“pillow, cushion”), German Low German Koden, Kon (“belly, paunch”), Middle Dutch codde (“scrotum”), Danish kodde (“testicle”), Swedish kudde (“cushion”), Faroese koddi (“pillow”), Icelandic koddi (“pillow”).