Codpiece

Definition: Codpiece

Codpiece

Noun

1. (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches.

Date "codpiece" was first used: 1460. (references)

Note: Codpiece \Cod"piece`\, noun. [Cod, noun, piece.]. (Websters 1913)

"Codpiece" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Codpiece" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	11	106,044

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "codpiece": codpiece-daughter.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "codpiece"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Welsh		balog (tongue). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old English	450-1100	codd. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	braguette. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "codpiece": codpieces. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Codpiece" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: codpeice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-o-p"
	-1 letter: ecocide.
	-2 letters: copied, pieced.
	-3 letters: codec, coped, deice, epode, piece.
	-4 letters: cede, cedi, cepe, code, coed, cope, deco, deep, dice, dope, eide, epic, iced, odic, oped, peed, pice, pied.
	-5 letters: cee, cep, cod, cop, dee, die, dip, doc, doe, ice, ode, ope, pec, ped, pee, pic, pie, pod, poi.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-o-p"
	+1 letter: codpieces.
	+2 letters: reoccupied.
	+3 letters: preoccupied.
	+4 letters: encyclopedia, encyclopedic, peccadilloes, plerocercoid, preconceived, reciprocated.
	+5 letters: encyclopaedia, encyclopaedic, encyclopedias, encyclopedism, encyclopedist, plerocercoids, pseudoscience.
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