quod
9.9
An old British word for a prison or jail
- noun
- /kwɒd/
- Archaic
:
trullo
- " Whatever you forked out to keep me in quod.
Examples
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Of course, he hasn't seen me for nearly two years, but he probably thinks I'm in quod or marinated?
Fiction book (1993) -
He was locked up in quod for stealing a car.
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After his conviction, he spent five years in quod before being released.
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They say there's no place like quod for reflecting on one's mistakes.
Synonyms
32
9.8
A prison or jail where people are kept after arrest
is British old slang, not just casual modern slang about imprisonment
18
9.9
A British informal place where people are kept after a crime
is an older British informal word rather than current slang
5
9.9
A jail or prison where people go when they break the law
is British and older in usage rather than general slang
1
9.9
A small local jail where police hold people, often in the past
is slang and older, while this term is often historical or official
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quod was old British slang for 'prison'. A helpful way to remember it is that the word probably came from Latin legal writing; the Latin quod appears in papers and records, and people began using quod to mean the place someone was kept.