Lexicographical Neighbors of Quodded
Literary usage of Quodded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"I got quodded and narrowly escaped a rope." 1900. KILLING, Stalky *• Co., 31.
... If Id been Dabney I swear I'd ha' quodded you. ..."
2. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"QUOD is really a shortening of quadrangle ; so to be quodded is to be within four
u .ills. The expression is, however, seldom used now except to me.in in ..."
3. The Three Clerks: A Novel by Anthony Trollope (1903)
"Why, you see, he's just been quodded,' ... and when she heard that he had been '
quodded,' immediately made up her mind that steps must be taken for his ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"If I'd been Dabney I swear I'd ha' quodded you. I think I'll suggest it to him
to-morrow." " An' it's all goin' up to the 'Ead. Oh, Good Lord! ..."
5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"... able-bodied Took this voman to the cell ; To the cell vere she was quodded,
In the Close of Clerkenwell. ..."
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