different between quod vs cinch

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

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

Noun

quod (countable and uncountable, plural quods)

1. (countable) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison.
   • 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.

   • 1878, John Wrathall Bull, Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia, page 264,

     […] and declined their escort, desiring to be conducted to “quod” by the gallant South Australian police, […] .

   • 2000, R.I.C. Publications, Workbook E: Society and Environment, page 48,

     From 1855-1903 a chapel was built, the boat shed and holding cell constructed, Government House was constructed as a summer residence for the Governor and the Quod (slang for prison) was constructed.

   • 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 202,

     Pity McNamara?s still doing his stretch in the quod, but he?ll be out soon.

2. (uncountable, Australia, slang) Confinement in a prison.
   • 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.

Translations

Alternative forms

• quad

Verb

quod (third-person singular simple present quods, present participle quodding, simple past and past participle quodded)

1. (slang, archaic) To confine in prison.

Etymology 2

Verb

quod

1. (obsolete) Quoth.
   • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Summoner?s Prologue and Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2009, Robert Boenig, Andrew Taylor (editors), The Canterbury Tales: A Selection, page 190,

     “No fors,” quod he, “but tel me al youre grief.”

   • 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; […] .

Latin

Etymology

Inflection of qu? (“who, which”), corresponding to Proto-Indo-European *k?od, whence also Old English hwæt (English what).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?od/, [k??d?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwod/, [kw?d?]

Pronoun

quod

1. nominative neuter singular of qu?
2. accusative neuter singular of qu?

Conjunction

quod

1. which
2. because
3. until
4. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) that (in indirect speech)

Related terms

• quid

Descendants

References

• quod in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quod in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quod in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quod in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Occitan cencha or Spanish cincha (“a belt or girth”), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum. Doublet of cingle.

Noun

cinch (plural cinches)

1. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
   • 1915, B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand

     He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.

2. (informal) Something that is very easy to do.
   • 1913, Major Archibald Lee Fletcher, Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns

     We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.

   • 2003, Clive Selwood, All the Moves (but None of the Licks) (page 33)

     The job was a snap. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cinch.

3. (informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
4. (informal) A firm hold.
   • 1916, Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale,

     You've got the cinch on him. You could send him to quod, and I'd send him there as quick as lightning. I'd hang him, if I could, for what he done to Lil Sarnia.

Synonyms

• (something that is very easy to do): piece of cake, breeze, See also Thesaurus:easy thing
• (something certain to occur): See Thesaurus:sure thing

Translations

Verb

cinch (third-person singular simple present cinches, present participle cinching, simple past and past participle cinched)

1. To bring to certain conclusion.
2. To tighten down.

Quotations

• 1911, "I intend to cinch that government business." — Margaret Burnham, The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise
• 2016, Christopher Kelly, The Pink Bus. Mapple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press. p. 49.

  "You know I've been thinking about your idea, and I think we should vote for each other," Patrick said, hoping that maybe this would be enough to cinch an actual friendship with Baffi--something that suddenly felt more important to Patrick than anything else in the world.

Derived terms

• cincher

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare senses at etymology 1 (a girth, a tight grip), perhaps suggesting the tactics used in the game; or perhaps from Spanish cinco (“five”), the five spots of the colour of the trump being important cards.

Noun

cinch (plural cinches)

1. (card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.

Synonyms

• double Pedro
• high five

Verb

cinch (third-person singular simple present cinches, present participle cinching, simple past and past participle cinched)

1. (card games) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.

Ladin

Alternative forms

• cin

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cinque, from Latin qu?nque.

Adjective

cinch

1. five

Noun

cinch m (uncountable)

1. five