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語源 1

From 中期英語 codling, codeling, equivalent to cod +‎ -ling.

名詞

codling (plural codlings)

1. A young small cod.
   • 1922, Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, part 4, chapter 2, The Fidgit's Story:

     “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 hake (cod-related food fish), especially one from the genus Urophycis.

派生語

• red codling

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

codling

1. present participle and gerund of codle

語源 3

• Some dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster online, list 中期英語 querdlyng, -lyng as equivalent to modern -ling.
• Some dictionaries, including Collins Online, state that the etymology is unknown.

別の表記

• codlin

名詞

codling (plural codlings)

1. A small, immature apple
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

     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

   • 1800, Hannah Glasse, Maria Wilson, “The Complete Confectioner”, in Creams, &c.‎:

     To make Codling Cream.
     Take twenty fair codlings, core them, beat them in a mortar with a pint of cream, strain it into a dish, put into it some crumbs of brown bread, with a little-sack, and dish it up.

2. Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking

派生語

• codling moth

参照

• “codling” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

アナグラム

• lingcod