Lexicographical Neighbors of Quodding
Literary usage of Quodding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"The jury, by the judge informed, That law is with the snob ; The thousand pounds
of damages Reduce to forty bob. For quodding him is seen, Who knows what of ..."
2. Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux by James Hardy Vaux (1819)
"... it is not easily exr plained on paper: for example, speaking of a man likely
to go to jail, one will say, there will be quodding dues concerned, ..."
3. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected ...by Francis Grose by Francis Grose (1823)
"... it is not easily explained on paper ; for example, speaking of a man likely
to go to jail, one will say, there will be quodding dues ..."
4. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"By the former process eels are caught in Hampshire, where it is called quodding,
while the latter is used in East Sussex. ..."
5. Kit and Kitty: A Novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1889)
"I know a Jew fellow who brought him to book, and was very nearly quodding him.
He won't be baek this side of Christmas, unless my friend is a liar, ..."
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