cod n.1
a euph. for God; usu. in comb., e.g. cods so, God’s oath; ecod! excl.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Cambyses E: Speak many words and by cods nailes I vow, Upon thy pate my staffe I will lay. | |
| Misogonus in (1906) II ii: Cods! that’s too low. | |
| Three Lords and Three Ladies of London C 2: Coads gaffer wer not you a meal-man once and dwelt with Lady Conscience? | |
| Dr. Dodypoll in III (1884) III ii: Vell, me say no more: chok a de selfe, foule churle, fowle, horrible, terrible pigge, pye Cod. | |
| Honest Whore Pt 1 IV ii: Cods life I was neere so thrumd since I was a gentleman. | |
| Women Beware Women I ii: Coads-me, my guardianer! | |
| New Academy II ii: Cods so, and why troe? | |
| ‘John & Jone’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 58: Cods foot, quoth she, ’tis a goodey steel. | |
| Epsom Wells III i: Cods me, yonder are our Wives. | |
| ‘The West-Countryman’s Song on a Wedding’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 58: For thither I’ll go, Cod’s-woons, because I have said so. | |
| ‘The Welch’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 129: But her Cosin O.P. was a Creature, / Come into her Country, Cods-plutter-anails. [...] Taffie was once a Cod-a-mighty of Wales. | |
| ‘The New Medley of the Country man, etc.’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 182: Cods sooks, here’s a vellow wo’d make a man zwear. | |
| Constant Couple II iv: Egad so! cod so! | |
| Confederacy II i: Cods-fish, strike him, Madam, and let my Lady go your halves. There’s no Sin in plundering a Husband. | |
| Homer in a nut-shell 31: [Y]ou lounzy [sic] Tatterdemallion ? Cod I’ll trounce ye. | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 98: Cods body! quoth he, why you come so nigh. | |
| Artifice Act III: I Cod, I ha’ found her Fingers slip-slap, this a-way, and that a-way, like a Flail upon a Wheat-sheaf. | |
| Provoked Husband V ii: Cods my Life! paying Money? is the Man distracted? | |
| Sarah-Ad 6: Cods my Life! if I talk thus, / People will think the Dice I use. | |
| Maid of Bath Married I i: With all his flummery of love, Cod’s wrath. | |
| et al. ‘Knowing Joe’ Festival of Anacreon (1810) 50: Cod! I was so sharp when the laughing came down. | |
| ‘Knowing Joe’ in Vocal Mag. 1 Feb. 68: I was call’d Knowing Joe by the boys of our town / [...] / ’Cod, I was so sharp. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Brownie of Bodsbeck II 26: Py Cot’s preath, put she shall pe coing in. [Ibid.] 31: Hu! Cot t--n your right! | |
| Bell’s Life in London 10 Apr. 2/5: The Israelite’s lament. Sho help me Cot! / I shadly fear, / That tings are looking very queer. [...] Py Cot! | |
| Pickwick Papers (1999) 25: If I’d been your friend in the green jemmy — damn me — punch his head — — cod I would. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Wexford Indep. 20 Mar. 4/1: ‘Please cod,’ was Sandy’s quiet reply. | |
| ‘Stop the Cart!’ Rakish Rhymer (1917) 1: If we were wed, cod, wouldn’t we play / At ral lal de ral, &c. |