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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)

  1. (archaic, slang) 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

  1. (obsolete) 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

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Questions about quodding

What is quodding the present participle and gerund of?
Quodding is the present participle and gerund of quod.

Words near quodding in the dictionary

  1. quod google
  2. quod non
  3. quod nons
  4. quodded
  5. quoddies
  6. quodding
  7. quoddities
  8. quoddity
  9. quoddy
  10. quodilibet
  11. quodlibet

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