codling

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A young small cod.
    — Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …
  2. A small, immature apple
    — Malvolio: Not yet old enough for a man, nor yong enough for a boy: as a squash is before tis a pescod, or a Codling when tis almost an Apple: Tis with him in standing water, betweene boy and man. He is verie well-fauour'd, and he speakes verie shrewishly: One would thinke his mothers milke were scarse out of him
  3. A hake (cod-related food fish), especially one from the genus Urophycis.
  4. Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of codle form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

codlings plural codlings plural codlin alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
red codling codling moth

词源

词源 1
From Middle English codling, codeling, equivalent to cod + -ling.
词源 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
词源 3
* Some dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster online, list Middle English querdlyng, -lyng as equivalent to modern -ling.
* Some dictionaries, including Collins Online, state that the etymology is unknown.
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