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cod
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(not fish related!)
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Definition:(slang) applied to persons, with various meanings: a joke.Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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I didn't mean to, honour bright. It was only for cod. I'm sorry.
James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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So he took a bundle of wisps of letters and envelopes out of his pocket.
—Are you codding? says I.
—Honest injun, says Alf. Read them.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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