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cod's-head
1. a. lit. The head of a cod-fish. attrib., as cod's-head soup.
†b. fig. ‘Stupid head.’ Obs.
1607Drewills Arraignm. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 56 Lloyd [threatning he] woulde try acquaintance with the others cods-heade.
c. cod's head and mackerel-tail (see quot. 1961).
1891Scribner's Mag. X. 5 Those forms of ships adopted for centuries by some European nations, and known to mariners as ‘cod's-head and mackerel-tail’ shape. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 56 Codshead and mackerel tail, a description applied to sailing yachts designed with bluff bows and a long run aft, the greatest beam being forward.
2. A stupid fellow, a blockhead. (Sometimes amplified as ‘a cod's head and shoulders’.)
1566Drant Horace, Sat. iii. B iv b, This coddes heade..This asse, doth wante his comon sence. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits i. (1596) 2 His [Cicero's] sonne..prooued but a Cods-head. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 12. 2/2 That Jobbernole Which Men call a Cods-head. 1886Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 328/1 If he had not been what is called in familiar parlance a cod's-head-and-shoulders himself.
Hence † cod's-headed a., stupid.
1708Motteux Rabelais v. xxix. (1737) 135 The silly Cods-headed Brothers of the Noose. |