Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also cod-root, codshead) the penis.

1500		J. Russell Boke of Nuture in Furnivall (E.E.T.S.) 135: Put not youre handes in youre hosen youre codware* for to clawe (*Codde, of mannys pryute (preuy membris).
[1556		J. Withals Dictionarie in Eng. and Latine ‘Parts of the bodie’ U: The coddes, scortum [sic]].
1650		H. Neville Newes from the New Exchange 3: [S]he was put in the Tower, where she now pines away for want of fresh-Cod, and knoweth not which way to lead her Nags to water, since the State hath cut off all her pipes of intelligence.
1656		Mennis & Smith et al. ‘Long Vacation’ Wit and Drollery 82: He deriv’d had been, / From Cod of King and nock of Queen. [Ibid.] ‘On the Praise of Fat Men’ 91: In Winter morning you might catch Her hand on Cod, he finging Notch. Thus they do keep their fingers warm.
1673		Head Canting Academy 163: Citizens wives ... Though they love flesh better than fish, . . . feed ... at Night upon Codshead.
1731		News from the New-Exchange (2 edn) [as 1650].
1788		Morris et al. Festival of Anacreon Pt II 74: Let us put our commodities now both together; My cod and your ling.
1790		‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 8: She ask’d him a question so odd, / [...] / And cry’d while she tickl’d his cod.
1838		‘Toasts & Sentiments’ Rambler’s Flash Songster 48: May the ladies always find plenty of fresh cod in the market.
1842		‘The Fishmonger!’ Nobby Songster 36: I’m the chap with my slap up – / Cod, that is so stiff and fresh.
c.1864		‘Tim Finigan Wakes’ Rakish Rhymer (1917) 90: And nightly he gave her a taste of his cod.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) III 632: I fell back, and pulled balls and cod well out of my trowsers.
1938		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 161: When I was young and in my prime, / I could git a little bit ’most any time, / But now I’m old an’ my cod’s grown cold, / An’ I couldn’ git a bit to save my soul.
1946		(con. a.1905) in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 666: When a man gets old his cod gets cold.
1973		P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 135: ‘Ah,’ she said, and continued to grin warmly at me [...] ‘You’ve got a hot cod.’.
1980		M. Thelwell Harder They Come 229: Him long cod hang almost to him knee.
2004		Louis Slipperz ‘UK Warriors’ 🎵 I feel my cod-root twitch.

2. money; thus lusty cod n.

1688		implied in lusty cod n.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Cod a good sum of Money.
1725		New Canting Dict.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Cod, a cod of money, a good sum of money.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

3. a purse.

1676		Rochester ‘Song’ in Vieth Complete Poems (1963) 83: You never think it worth your care / How empty nor how dull / The heads of your admirers are, / So that their cods be full.
1889–90		Barrère & Leland Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

4. (drugs) a large amount of money.

2001

ONDCP Street Terms 6: Cod — Large amount of money.