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cooth

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Probably from (unattested) Norn, cognate with Icelandic kóð (small fry), Norwegian kot (small fry, young saithe), regional Swedish kod (small fry, young saithe).

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cooth (plural cooths)

  1. (Scotland, chiefly Orkney) A young coalfish or saithe.
    • 1959, George Mackay Brown, “Hamnavoe”, in Carve the Runes, Polygon, published 2021, page 17:
      A tinker keened like a tartan gull / At cuithe-hung doors.