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peasecod, peascod Now arch. or dial.|ˈpiːzkɒd|
Forms: 4 pees-, 4–6 pese-, 4–7 pes-, 5 peys-, 4–6 -codde, -code, 5–7 -cod, 6– peasecod, 7– peascod.
[f. pease n. + cod n.1]
The pod or legume of the pea-plant; a pea-pod.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 279 Al þe pore peple pese-coddes fetten. 1415Hoccleve To Sir J. Oldcastle 466 The worm for to sleen in the pesecod. 1522Skelton Why not to Court 108 They may garlycke pyll..Or pescoddes they may shyll. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. iv. 52, I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 72 A post that will not afford victuals, is not worth a pease-cod. 1794Coleridge Parl. Oscill., One peasecod is not liker to another. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 220 The pea that may be extracted from a ripe peascod.
†b. In mock imprecations. Obs.
1606Day Ile of Guls v. i. (1881) 98 Not come! a pescod on him! 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 218 Ho now! pescods on it, Crauford Lord Lindsay puts me in minde of him.
c. attrib. and Comb., as peasecod-cart; † peasecod ale, (?); peasecod-bellied a., epithet of a doublet fashionable about the end of the 16th century, having the lower part stiffly quilted and projecting; shotten-bellied; (also peasecod-doublet); peasecod boat, a boat resembling a peasecod (cf. pea-pod 2); peasecod-cuirass, a cuirass made like the peasecod-bellied doublet; † peasecod-plum, name of some variety of plum; † peasecod-time, the season for peas; † peasecod-tree, the bean-trefoil or Anagyris.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 144 Thy tales taste all of ale. Not of *pescod ale, syr, my tales are not stale.
1846Fairholt Costume 263 The long-breasted doublets..were carried down to a long peak in front, from whence they obtained the name of ‘*peascod-bellied’ doublets. 1898Visct. Dillon in Archæol. Jrnl. Ser. ii. V. 313 The peasecod-bellied doublet is reproduced in steel.
16..Davenant, Step into one of your *peascod boats, whose tilts are not so sumptuous as the roofs of gundaloes.
1715tr. C'tess D'Anois' Wks. 374 You would have thought him some Draught-Horse taken from a *Pease-cod Cart.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 413, I haue knowne thee these twentie nine yeeres, come *Pescod-time.
1611Cotgr., Anagyre, the plant called Beane Trifolie, or *Pescod tree. |