Quod - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |kwɑːd|  American pronunciation of the word quod
Brit.  |kwɒd|  British pronunciation of the word quod

noun

- (countable) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison.
- (uncountable, Australia, slang) Confinement in a prison.

verb

- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments, 1868, The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period, Volume 8, Part 1, page 422,
“Why," quod her friend, “would ye not willingly have gone with your company, if God should so have suffered it?"
- 1908, James Gairdner, Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey, 2010, Cambridge University Press, page 416,
“And therefore I have granted to their request," quod the King; [...] .

Extra examples

...the robbers who made off with nearly a half million pounds will likely spend a good long time in quod...

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