English Explanatory Dictionary

codhead

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person from North Shields, a town in Tyne and Wear, in the northeast of England.
  2. A person from Grimsby, a fishing town in Lincolnshire, in the north of England.
  3. A person from Whitby, a town in North Yorkshire, in the northeast of England.
  4. A person from Fleetwood, a town in the northwest of Lancashire.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-codhead.wav

Word forms

codhead codheads

Etymology

From cod + -head, owing to the prevalence of fishing in the area of North Shields, River Tyne and the Headland area of Hartlepool and Whitby.

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