(The alleged sense ‘green peas’ in Halliwell appears to be founded solely upon a conjecture of Gifford’s on the following passage, and that in Sun’s Darling (CODLING2 1 c) for ‘hot codlings,’ which he also took for ‘peas.’ If ‘coddled’ or roasted peas (CODDLE v.1 2) were ever called coddlings, this may be the sense here; but evidence is wanting. In any case there appears to be a coarse allusion to COD1 4, CODLING3.)
c. 1623. Ford, etc. Witch of Edmonton, II. i. In the pease-field? has she a mind to codlings already?
