单词 | cod walloper |
释义 | cod wallopern. slang. ΚΠ 1879 St. Nicholas Oct. 788/1 ‘We have n't caught anything like a string of fish.’..‘Hold on,’ shouted Parker. ‘I 's got a cod-walloper.’ 1913 Forest & Stream 16 Aug. 203/1 A bad knot in a fish line was a ‘wrinkle-hawk’, an excellent thing was ‘just exebogenus’, a big fish was ‘an old cod-walloper’, and a long-stemmed pipe was ‘a flugemocker’. ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. at Walloper, n.2 Cod-walloper, a cod-fishing vessel. [Provincetown, Massachusetts.] a1925 R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. III. in Dial. Notes (1931) 6 183 Cod walloper, a cod fishing vessel of the New England coast. 3. A person who handles or deals in fish for a living (cf. cod-whanger at whanger n.2 2b). Also: a mildly depreciative term for any person; a fool. Now rare.With regard to depreciative use, cf. codswallop n. 1 (first recorded slightly later).Quot. 1967 may show the influence of codswallop n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fish or seafood oyster-monger1321 rippier1384 fishera1400 pannierman1419 oyster sellera1425 fish-sellerc1440 pessonera1450 fishmonger1464 pikemonger1464 palingman1475 fish-man1540 jowter1550 mussel-mongera1625 flounder-man1700 periwinkler1837 fish-hawker1866 fish-salesman1868 piscitarian1880 fish-cadger1889 cod walloper1915 1915 Natal Newslet. (H.M.S. Natal) 13 Mar. 11 'S curious that the person who lives on or by the sea has a natural mastery of this lingo technique. The ease with which a Billingsgate cod walloper can crumple up a special constable cannot be beaten even by a socialist orator with twice the lung power. 1916 Boston Sunday Globe 17 Dec. (Mag.) 12/1 Say, what does that old codwalloper upstairs [i.e. the judge] want, anyway? 1967 I. Brown Ring of Words 59 A satirical poet, eager to expose the bards and scholars of his time as cod-wallopers, might call his onslaught a New Dunciad. 2014 F. White That went by Fast (e-book ed.) What she saw in that old cod walloper [sc. a fisherman] beats me but she saw a lot more than anybody else. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1879 |
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