codlin

plural codlins

1. alternativeAlternative form of codling (“apple”).

   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.

   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

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

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