quod

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kwɒd/    美 /kwɑd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison. countable
    — 1863, Punch, quoted in 1995, Seán McConville, English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to Death, page 69, […] not the poorer classes merely, but the rich will be desirous to enjoy the mingled luxury and comfort of a gaol: and we shall hear of blasé Swells become burglars and garotters as a prelude to a prison, and, instead of taking tours for restoration of their health, recruiting it more cheaply by a residence in quod.
  2. Confinement in a prison. Australia,slang,uncountable
    — c. 1894, Acquaintance of Norman Lindsay, quoted in 2005, James Cockington, Banned: Tales From the Bizarre History of Australian Obscenity, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, paperback →ISBN, page 7, I don′t suppose you'll get more than a couple of months′ quod for them.
动词 v.
  1. To confine in prison. archaic,slang
    — 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.”
  2. Quoth. obsolete
    — “Why,” quod her friend, “would ye not willingly have gone with your company, if God should so have suffered it?”

词形变化

quods plural quad alternative quods present,singular,third-person quodding participle,present quodded participle,past quodded past

词源

Abbreviation of quadrangle; originally (17th century) referring to the quadrangles of Newgate Prison, London.
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