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Definition: Cudgel |
CudgelNoun1. A club that is used as a weapon. Verb1. Strike with a cudgel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cudgel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy. |
Imagination | Set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention; rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains; excogitate; brainstorm. |
Impulse | Hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; (weapon); ax; (sharp). |
Scourge | Blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon. |
Thought | Rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, crack one's brains, beat one's brains, cudgel one's brains; set one's brain to work, set one's wits to work. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cudgel |
| English words defined with "cudgel": Ballow, bastinado, Baston ♦ Crabstick, Cudgeled, Cudgeler, Cudgeling, Cudgelled, Cudgelling ♦ Fustigate ♦ Mauling ♦ shillalah, shillelagh, Shillelah, Soft-shelled crabs ♦ To beat up, To cross the cudgels. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cudgel": Cudgel One's Brains, Cudgels ♦ Juge de Paix ♦ Muscadins of Paris ♦ Plymouth Cloak. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cudgel": Ballow. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Thenardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel, and the solitude of the place. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I can certainly appreciate the fact that commercial airlines in this country were put in serious financial trouble by the terrorist attacks, but using that tragedy as a cudgel to pound billions of dollars out of the federal government was wrong. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Cudgel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Cudgel" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cudgel": cudgel one's brains ♦ Cudgel play ♦ To cudgel one's brains. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cudgel": cudgel-wielding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cudgel | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cudgel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | topuz (Mace), shkop (bat, baton, Billy, cane, pointer, pole, rod, roost, staff, stick, truncheon, walking stick), qëlloj me shkop (club), dajak (club, drubbing, rocket, rod, thrashing, walloping, whopping), çomange (bludgeon, cosh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هراوة (bat, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, club, singlestick, stave, truncheon), ضرب بالنبوت. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тояга (bat, club, staff, stick), бия с тояга. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '子 (club, corncob, ear of maize, maize, stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | palice (club, Mace, skull), obušek (baton, cosh, truncheon), klacek (bludgeon, bully, club, hobbledehoy, lout, lubber, stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چماق زدن (Mace), چماق (Bat, Bludgeon, Mace, Maul, Stave, Stick), چوب زدن (Bastinado, Beat, Drub, Switch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ryhmysauva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | knüppel (billet, billy club, bludgeon, bludgeons, club, cudgels, nightstick, stick, truncheon, truncheons). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κτυπώ (bang, buffet, bump, clack, clobber, clout, hit, impinge, knock, larrup, maul, rap, shroud, slat, smite, strike, swat, thrash), ρόπαλο (bat, bludgeon, club, shillelah, truncheon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | husáng (baton, cane, spear, stick), elnáspángol (belabor, Lam, larrup, to belabor, to belabour, to lace, to lay it on sy, to wallop, trounce, wallop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pentungan (club), pentung (club), gada (bludgeon, club). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | clava (club), randello (club, floggings, lickings), randellare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 棍' (club, stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ""ぼう (club, earnest request, entreaty, mixed spinning, mixed yarn, solicitation, stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | maidjey fendeilee (quarterstaff), cur bad da, bad (bat, club, stave, trucheon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | udgelcay clava (bludgeon, club, mace), cacete (bastinado, baton, bludgeon, cane, stick), luta com paus, agredir com cacete. (various references) ciomãgi (baste, club, drub, fustigate, sandbag, thrash, whop), toroipan (bludgeon), se ridica în apãrarea, retevei, mãciucã (bludgeon), hãdãrag, baston (bat, baton, cane, Mace, rod, staff, stave, stick, walking stick), bâtã (bat, club). (various references) бить палкой (cane), дубина (bat, club). (various references) cuaille (a club, baton, club), bata (staff). (various references) toljaga (club), izbatinati (chastise, club, drub), budža (knobstick), batina (bludgeon, club, paddle, rod, stick). (various references) porra (baton, Billy, blackthorn, club, sandbag), estaca (cutting, hint, pale, paling, peg, picket, pile, pole, post, spur, stake, stick), aporrear (bang, bang away, beat, beat up, blackjack, bludgeon, clobber, club, cosh, knock about, pommel, pound, pound on, pummel, slog, slug, thrash, thump, thwack, whack). (various references) påk (bludgeon, club), knölpåk (life preserver). (various references) sopalamak (beat with a stick, birch, bludgeon, cane, club, curry, ferule), sopa (bashing, bat, baton, beating, birc-rod, bludgeon, cane, caning, club, cosh, drubbing, ferule, fescue, flogging, rod, shillelagh, stick, switch), lobut (club, indian club, pin), değnek (cane, ferule, rod, staff, stick), dayak atmak (bash up, baste, beat, chastise, clobber, curry, drub, flog, give a thrashing, give smb. the works, give the stick, hide, Lam, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, pelt, punish, spifflicate, spiflicate, thrash, trounce, whop), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), çomak (beetle, club). (various references) бити дрючком, дрючок (truncheon, waddy). (various references) gậy t y che chở ai, dùi cui (club, towel), bảo vệ ai. (various references) pastynu (bludgeon, club), pastwn (baton, bludgeon, club), ffonodio (baste, beat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | sagol. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cudgel": cudgeled, cudgeler, cudgelers, cudgeling, cudgelled, cudgelling, cudgels. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cudgel": becudgel. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cudgel": becudgeled, becudgeling, becudgelled, becudgelling, becudgels. (additional references) | |
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"Cudgel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cgdgbe, cludge, codge, Crudge, cudges, cudgle, Cudjoe, Cudnell, Cundell, Czudek, Kidgell, kudge, pudgily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cudgel" (pronounced ku"jul) |
| 3 | -j u l | agile, angel, Archangel, cordial, fragile, vigil. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-l-u" | |
-1 letter: clued, glued, luged. | |
-2 letters: clue, cued, duce, duel, geld, gled, glue, gude, leud, luce, lude, luge. | |
-3 letters: cel, cud, cue, del, due, dug, ecu, eld, ged, gel, gul, led, leg, leu, lug. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-l-u" | |
+1 letter: cudgels. | |
+2 letters: becudgel, cudgeled, cudgeler, glunched. | |
+3 letters: becudgels, claughted, collogued, cudgelers, cudgeling, cudgelled, decalogue, decupling, excluding, glucoside, secluding, unclogged. | |
+4 letters: beclouding, becudgeled, catalogued, clangoured, coagulated, cudgelling, decalogues, decoupling, divulgence, glucosides, granduncle, indulgence, precluding, scheduling. | |
+5 letters: becudgeling, becudgelled, camouflaged, chugalugged, decolouring, demiurgical, disgraceful, divulgences, elucidating, geniculated, genuflected, glucosidase, glucuronide, granduncles, indulgences, uncataloged. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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