cod

Fish and chips

Cod is a large cold-water fish prized for its mild white flesh, historically one of the most important commercial fish in the Atlantic.

Cod fishing shaped economies and diets across northern Europe and North America for centuries.

The word also appears in British slang: a cod accent or cod philosophy is fake or mocking, a parody of the real thing.

The cod was so plentiful they said you could walk across the sea on their backs.

culinary

fillet

Boneless meat portion

batterUncooked cake mixture
chowderThick creamy seafood soup
fish and chipsFried seafood with potatoes

brandade · bacalao · breadcrumbs · tartar · pan-fry · poach · flaky · stockfish · lutefisk · fish cakes

preserved

salted

Treated with sodium chloride

driedStripped of moisture
stockfishAir-dried unsalted fish
bacalaoSpanish dried cod

cured · lutefisk · brine · preservation · medieval · Vikings · Portugal · Caribbean · colonial · provisions

Gadiformes

haddock

Edible Atlantic groundfish

hakeMarine food fish
whitingPulverized chalk or seafood
pollockAtlantic cod-family fish

ling · tomcod · codling · burbot · groundfish

fishing

trawler

Net-dragging fishing boat

fisherySeafood harvesting enterprise
AtlanticOcean bordering Europe
Grand BanksSubmerged plateau, rich fishery

net · catch · commercial · overfishing · quota · spawning · stocks · sustainable · vessel · marine

mock

parody

Satirical imitation

spoofComic exaggerated imitation
fakeNot the real thing
put-onDeliberate deception or pretense

phony · satirical · imitation · send-up

Categories

fishsalmon, bass, perch, eels, goldfish
sea lifeshark, whale, dolphin, salmon, jellyfish
seafoodfish, shrimp, crab, lobster, salmon
aquatic lifedolphins, whales, dolphin, sharks, sea turtles
Atlantic fishAtlantic salmon, haddock, pollock, pollack, herring
fish and amphibiansfish, shark, sharks, salmon, trout

Opposites

authenticity

Truly what it claims

authentic · real · legitimate · true · bona fide

fish type

Pink-fleshed migratory fish

tuna · tropical fish · freshwater fish · mackerel · sardine

Phrases

cod fishingHarvesting marine whitefish
cod liver oilFish-derived nutrient liquid
Cape CodMassachusetts coastal peninsula
cod-liver oilMarine-sourced vitamin supplement
salt codCured, dried whitefish
coddled eggGently heated in shell

Family

coddle, decoded, decoding, cods, decoder, coddled, coddling, codebook, codec

Familiarity: Top 50,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G