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cooth

cooth noun: a young coalfish or saithe.

Noun

cooth (plural cooths)

  1. (Orkney, Scotland) A young coalfish or saithe.
    • A tinker keened like a tartan gull / At cuithe-hung doors.1959, George Mackay Brown, “Hamnavoe”, in Carve the Runes, Polygon, published 2021, page 17

Forms of cooth

pluralcooths
alternative formcuith
alternative formcuithe

Origin of cooth

Probably from (unattested) Norn, cognate with Icelandic kóð (“small fry”), Norwegian kot (“small fry, young saithe”), regional Swedish kod (“small fry, young saithe”).

Questions about cooth

What does cooth mean?
Cooth means a young coalfish or saithe.
What part of speech is cooth?
Cooth is a noun.
What is the plural of cooth?
The plural of cooth is cooths.

Words near cooth in the dictionary

  1. Cooter Brown
  2. cooters
  3. Cootes
  4. cootfoot
  5. cootfoots
  6. cooth
  7. cootie
  8. Cootie Brown
  9. cootie catcher
  10. cootie catchers
  11. cooties

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