codfish

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a cod, especially one caught or prepared for food

   The fishing boat returned with a hold full of codfish.

2. 2
   noun

   the white flesh of cod used as food

   They served salted codfish with potatoes.

A compound of cod and fish. Cod itself is of uncertain origin; the expanded form codfish emphasizes either the animal or its flesh as food.

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