Quockerwodger

a wooden toy figure which, when pulled by a string, jerks its limbs about. The term is used in a slang sense, to signify a pseudo-politician, one whose strings of action are pulled by somebody else. Quod , a prison, a lock-up; QUODDED , put in prison. Quod is really a shortening of quadrangle; so to be QUODDED is to be within four walls. The expre ion is, however, seldom used now except to mean in prison. At Oxford, where it is spelt QUAD , the word has its original signification.