codlin

English

Noun

codlin (plural codlins)

1. Alternative form of codling (“apple”)
   • 1892, Alfred Tennyson, The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 3:

     Ay, how fine they be in their liveries, and each of 'em as full of meat as an egg, and as sleek and as round about as a mellow codlin.

   • 1919, Thomas McDonald Rendle, Swings and Roundabouts: A Yokel in London, page 50:

     Delicate perfumes floated through the theatre; at the penny "dukey," fried fish and hot codlins reminded you more of food than fantasy.