quodding
quodding is the present participle and gerund of quod.
Meaning of quod
Verb (1)
quod (third-person singular simple present quods, present participle quodding, simple past and past participle quodded)
- To confine in prison.
- An intelligent costermonger, who was with me when I saw the two brothers, told me that “a costermonger would rather be thought to have come out of prison than out of a workhouse,” for his “mates” would say, if they heard he had been locked up, “O, he’s only been quodded for pitching into a crusher.”1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861
Verb (2)
quod
- Quoth.
- “Why,” quod her friend, “would ye not willingly have gone with your company, if God should so have suffered it?”1563, John Foxe, “Actes and Monuments”, in The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period, published 1868, Volume 8, Part 1, page 422
Questions about quodding
- What is quodding the present participle and gerund of?
- Quodding is the present participle and gerund of quod.
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