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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The liver of a codfish.

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Examples

  • Why, the average review is more nauseating than cod-liver oil.

    Chapter 30 2010

  • Getting Kiera to read anything is like trying to feed her cod-liver oil.

    Family Storms 2011

  • Of a friend in Paris in 1848 he asked the name of the "learned pharmacist who has discovered the art of making cod-liver oil palatable."

    For Love of Laissez-Faire James Grant 2011

  • Getting Kiera to read anything is like trying to feed her cod-liver oil.

    Family Storms 2011

  • In fact, cod-liver oil is an excellent source of vitamin D, and many vegetable oils contain vitamins E and K.

    Q&A: Oils and vitamin D 2010

  • Twinlab sent me a statement that two of its cod-liver oil supplements meet "stringent standards."

    Do fish-oil supplements need warning labels? 2010

  • Doses of fluids, antibiotics and a mix of cod-liver oil and mayonnaise used to help break up the oil they've swallowed are administered based on the animal's weight.

    Oil Spill: Baby Animals Hit The Hardest (PHOTOS) 2010

  • There was only one thing on the breakfast menu at my house on school days — oatmeal, with a chaser of cod-liver oil.

    Baking Power Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

  • Doses of fluids, antibiotics and a mix of cod-liver oil and mayonnaise used to help break up the oil they've swallowed are administered based on the animal's weight.

    Oil Spill: Baby Animals Hit The Hardest (PHOTOS) 2010

  • The public sector still lurks in the shadow of postwar socialism, of Start-rite shoes, Bisto kids and cod-liver oil.

    In the name of purity, public funds are wasted on the rich 2010

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