peasecod, peascod Now arch. or dial.
(ˈpiːzkɒd)
Forms: 4 pees-, 4–6 pese-, 4–7 pes-, 5 peys-, 4–6 -codde, -code, 5–7 -cod, 6– peasecod, 7– peascod.
[f. pease n. + cod n.1]
The pod or legume of the pea-plant; a pea-pod.
| 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 279 Al þe pore peple pese-coddes fetten. 1415 Hoccleve To Sir J. Oldcastle 466 The worm for to sleen in the pesecod. 1522 Skelton Why not to Court 108 They may garlycke pyll..Or pescoddes they may shyll. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. iv. 52, I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her. 1755 Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 72 A post that will not afford victuals, is not worth a pease-cod. 1794 Coleridge Parl. Oscill., One peasecod is not liker to another. 1878 Huxley Physiogr. 220 The pea that may be extracted from a ripe peascod. |
† b. In mock imprecations.
Obs.| 1606 Day Ile of Guls v. i. (1881) 98 Not come! a pescod on him! 1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 218 Ho now! pescods on it, Crauford Lord Lindsay puts me in minde of him. |
c. attrib. and
Comb., as
peasecod-cart;
† peasecod ale, (?);
peasecod-bellied a., epithet of a doublet fashionable about the end of the 16th century, having the lower part stiffly quilted and projecting; shotten-bellied; (also
peasecod-doublet);
peasecod boat, a boat resembling a peasecod (
cf. pea-pod 2);
peasecod-cuirass, a cuirass made like the
peasecod-bellied doublet;
† peasecod-plum, name of some variety of plum;
† peasecod-time, the season for peas;
† peasecod-tree, the
bean-trefoil or
Anagyris.
| 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 144 Thy tales taste all of ale. Not of *pescod ale, syr, my tales are not stale. |
| 1846 Fairholt Costume 263 The long-breasted doublets..were carried down to a long peak in front, from whence they obtained the name of ‘*peascod-bellied’ doublets. 1898 Visct. Dillon in Archæol. Jrnl. Ser. ii. V. 313 The peasecod-bellied doublet is reproduced in steel. |
| 16.. Davenant, Step into one of your *peascod boats, whose tilts are not so sumptuous as the roofs of gundaloes. |
| 1715 tr. C'tess D'Anois' Wks. 374 You would have thought him some Draught-Horse taken from a *Pease-cod Cart. |
| 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 413, I haue knowne thee these twentie nine yeeres, come *Pescod-time. |
| 1611 Cotgr., Anagyre, the plant called Beane Trifolie, or *Pescod tree. |