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*cod-fish*; - what are non literal meanings of this word please?
It may instead be written without a hyphen - thus - codfish.
"He turned to the taller of the two Germans, who without his coat seemed more like a cod-fish than ever."
Is the way it is used in the opening chapter of Bulldog Drummond - by Sapper (Herman Cyril McNeile) in 1920 & it seems to me to be open to various interpretations - how do you understand it please?
3 Answers
- d_r_sivaLv 74 years ago
codfish:
noun: major food fish of arctic and cold-temperate waters
noun: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached
- Anonymous4 years ago
Does the author suppose that readers are familiar with how a cod-fish looks? I'm sure that few readers knew what a whole cod looked like at the time the book was first published. I've never seen a whole cod-fish, alive or dead.
Source(s): until now.......https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod
