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quodlin

quodlin is the obsolete form of codling.

Meaning of codling

Noun (1)

codling (plural codlings)

  1. A young small cod.
    • Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …1922, Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, part 4, chapter 2, The Fidgit's Story
  2. A hake (cod-related food fish), especially one from the genus Urophycis.

Noun (2)

codling (plural codlings)

  1. A small, immature apple
    • Malvolio: Not yet old enough for a man, nor yong enough
      for a boy: as a squash is before tis a pescod, or a Codling
      when tis almost an Apple: Tis with him in standing water,
      betweene boy and man. He is verie well-fauour'd,
      and he speakes verie shrewishly: One would thinke his
      mothers milke were...c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking

See all 5 meanings of codling

Forms of quodlin

pluralquodlins

Questions about quodlin

What is quodlin the obsolete form of?
Quodlin is the obsolete form of codling.

Words near quodlin in the dictionary

  1. quodlibetificate
  2. quodlibetificated
  3. quodlibetificates
  4. quodlibetificating
  5. quodlibets
  6. quodlin
  7. quodlins
  8. quodque
  9. quods
  10. quog
  11. quoggy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quodlin (page history and authors); codling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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