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codfish

noun

Etymology

From cod + fish.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as codfish — “cod + fish”

Definitions

  1. A cod (any of various fish, especially the Atlantic cod).

  2. The flesh of a cod as food.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for codfish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA