or quad, subs. (common).—A prison: hence QUODDED = imprisoned; QUOD-COVE = a turnkey.—B. E. (c. 1696); HALL (1714); GROSE (1785); VAUX (1812).
1751. FIELDING, Amelia, I. iv. He is a gambler, and committed for cheating at play; there is not such a pickpocket in the whole QUOD.
1804. W. TARRAS, Poems, 97.
| By the cuff he’s led alang, | |
| An’ settl’d wi’ some niccum, | |
| In QUAD yon night. |
1834. W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood, III. v. The knucks in QUOD did my schoolmen play.
1836. B. DISRAELI, Henrietta Temple, VI. xx. Fancy a nob like you being sent to QUOD!
1855. TOM TAYLOR, Still Waters Run Deep, ii. 2. A fellow who risks his hundred on the spinning of a roulette ball, is a gambler, and may be QUODDED by the first beak that comes handy.
d. 1863. THACKERAY, Ballads of Policeman X., ‘The Ballad of Eliza Davis.’
| And that Pleaseman able-bodied | |
| Took this voman to the cell; | |
| To the cell vere she was QUODDED, | |
| In the Close of Clerkenwell. |
1871. ARNOLD, Friendship’s Garland, vii. Do you really mean to maintain that a man can’t put old Diggs in QUOD for snaring a hare without all this elaborate apparatus of Roman law and history of jurisprudence?
1886. M. E. BRADDON, Mohawks, ii. “I got QUODDED and narrowly escaped a rope.”
1900. KIPLING, Stalky & Co., 31, ‘In Ambush.’ You got off easy, considerin’. If I’d been Dabney I swear I’d ha’ QUODDED you.
