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▪ I. quod, n.1 slang.|kwɒd|
Also quad.
[Of uncertain origin; commonly regarded as identical with quod quad n.1, but there is no evidence that this is really the case. See quot. a 1700.]
Prison; spec. in phr. in quod.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Quod, Newgate; also any Prison, tho' for Debt. 1752Fielding Amelia i. xii, There is not such a pickpocket in the whole quad. 1795in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. IV. 226 Coming home, was cast in quod Till subjects paid his ransom. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair liv, She's..grudged me a hundred pound to get me out of quod. 1862Wraxall tr. Hugo's ‘Misérables’ iv. x. (1877) 7 Do you know I have been in quod for a fortnight? 1872G. P. Burnham Mem. U.S. Secret Service p. vi, In quod, in prison; committed, permanently. 1884[see fiddling vbl. n. 3]. 1917Kipling Holy War 2 A tinker out of Bedford, A vagrant oft in quod. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 11 July 1/5 According to the representations of the other four Mr. Fullerton was in no way responsible for the incident which put them in quod. 1968Listener 18 July 72/3 Now, one of this chap's maternal uncles..has got to pay a 50 quid debt or go to quod.
Comb.1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Quod-cove, the keeper of a gaol.
▪ II. † quod, n.2
obs. var. cod n.1 7, a cocoon.
1615tr. De Montfort's Surv. E. Indies 32 They lay so many [silkworms] on it, leauing them there without any more adoe, except it be to gather the quods, when they are ready to be spunne.
▪ III. quod, v.|kwɒd|
[f. quod n.1]
trans. To put in prison.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict. s.v., To quod a person is to send him to gaol. 1823in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. 282 Since Carlile's been quoded, We wanted some shopman about of your size. 1850Thackeray Ballad of Eliza Davis, The cell where she was quodded, In the Close of Clerkenwell. 1888J. Runciman Chequers 80 A woman answered, ‘You've struck me, you swine; and if I've got a black eye I'll quod you, sure as I'm yere. Ain't I lushed you, and fed you, and found your clobber long enough?’ 1923D. L. Sayers Whose Body? iii. 60 That's her story. Sugg's delighted,..and quodded Thipps on the strength of it. 1930R. H. Mottram Europa's Beast v. 136 In England the police would have ‘quodded’ her.
▪ IV. quod, quod-a
obs. varr. quoth, quotha. |
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