Verb. (common).—1. See subs.
2. (thieves').—To watch; to nose (q.v.); to nark (q.v.).
Quockerwodger, subs. (common).—A
puppet on strings; hence (2)
a tool; an agent or âme damnée;
a dependant.
Quod (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. Tarras, Poems, 97. By the cuff he's led alang, An' settl'd wi' some niccum, In quad yon night.
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, iii. v. The knucks in quod did my schoolmen play.
1836. Disraeli, Henrietta Temple vi. xx. Fancy a nob like you being sent to quod.
1855. Taylor, Still Waters, ii. 2 A fellow who risks . . . the spinning of a roulette wheel is a gambler, and may be quodded by the first beak that comes handy.
d.1863. Thackeray, Ballads of Policeman X., '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. M. 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.
1886. Braddon, Mohawks, ii. "I got quodded and narrowly escaped a rope."
1900. Kipling, Stalky & Co., 31. You got off easy considerin'. If I d been Dabney I swear I'd ha' quodded you.
Quodger, subs. (legal).—Quo jure
= by what law.
Quodling, subs. (old).—A fledgling;
a green-'un (q.v.). [Gifford:
'A young quod. alluding
to the quids and quods of lawyers.'
Nares: 'Dol intended to call
Dapper, a young raw apple, fit
for nothing without dressing: codlings
are particularly so used
when unripe.'] Quill-driver
(q.v.): cf. quod.
1610. Ben Jonson Alchemist, i. 1. Dol. A fine young quodling. Face. O, my lawyer's clerk, I lighted on last night.
Quoniam, subs. (old).—1. See
quot.
c.1620. Healy, Disc. of New World, 69. Out of Can, quoniam, or jourdain. Ibid., Marginal Note. A quoniam is a cup well known in Drink-allia.
2. (venery).—The female pudendum: see Monosyllable.
Quot (Quot- or Cot-quean),
subs. (old).—See Quean.
1647. Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure, ii. 2. Don Lucio? Don quot-*quean, Don Spinster, wear a petticoat still.
Quote (or Quot.), subs. (literary).
A quotation.
1888. Sportsman, 29 Dec. Will shortly make her reappearance on the London stage, and he also sends a list of quotes and her portrait.
Quoz. See Quiz.
Quyer. See Queer, passim.
