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单词 cod walloper
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cod wallopern.

Brit. /ˈkɒd ˌwɒləpə/, U.S. /ˈkɑd ˌwɑləpər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cod n.2, walloper n.
Etymology: < cod n.2 + walloper n.With sense 1 compare walloper n. 2. With sense 2 compare earlier dock-walloper n. at dock n.3 Compounds 2, potwalloper n. 2, and koppie walloper n. at koppie n. Compounds 2. With the depreciative use in sense 3 compare potwalloper n. 1b and also fishwife n. Additions. Compare earlier codwalloping ( < cod n.2 + walloping n.):1858 New Sporting Mag. Nov. 333 We were regularly beat off of the water by his pair of poaching botches cross-fishing—or, as I called it, ‘codwalloping’. It was more like salt-water tackle to catch cod-fish than that fit for light fresh water they were fishing with.
slang.
1. U.S. regional (New York). A large fish. Cf. walloper n. 2. Obsolete.
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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’.
2. U.S. regional (New England). A cod fishing vessel. Obsolete.Apparently only recorded in dictionaries and glossaries.
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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.
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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).
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