cooth

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noun

A young coalfish or saithe.

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Meanings

nouncooth (plural cooths)

plural cooths · alternative cuith · alternative cuithe

  1. OrkneyScotlandA young coalfish or saithe.

    A tinker keened like a tartan gull / At cuithe-hung doors.

    1959, George Mackay Brown, “Hamnavoe”, in Carve the Runes, Polygon, published 2021, page 17

Origin

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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