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caudlen.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French caudel, chaudel. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman caudel, Middle French (northern) caudel, cadel hot drink, broth (13th cent. or earlier), variant of Anglo-Norman chaudel, Old French chaudel (Middle French chadel , chaudel , chaudeau , French chaudeau ) hot drink, broth (12th cent.), (chiefly northern) trick, prank (12th cent.) < post-classical Latin caldellum hot spiced drink (from late 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin caldum , calidum , neuter of caldus , calidus warm (see calid adj.) + -ellum -ellum suffix. Compare caddle n.Compare Old Occitan caudel, chaudel (1503). Now chiefly historical. the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > hot alcoholic drinks (with milk or eggs) > [noun] > caudle c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) l. 11767 As me seiþ wan ich am ded, make me a caudel. a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 90 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler (1985) 117 Cawdel of almaund mylk. Take almaundes blaunched and drawe hem vp with wyne... Boile it, cast a lytle salt þeron, and serue it forth. 1545 T. Raynald tr. E. Roesslin ii. sig. R.iiiv It is a commune vsage to geue often to women in there chylde bed cawdels of otemeele. 1660 S. Pepys 7 Apr. (1970) I. 104 Went to bed and got a caudle made me, and sleep upon it very well. 1739 xvi. 256 Chicken Broth, or Jellies, may be freely drank of; and, every now and then, a Dish of the common White Wine Caudle, hot. 1857 A. Bowman x. 142 In some parts of the country it still continues to be the custom to offer caudle to the visitors who call on a lady after her confinement. 1959 52 A white caudle is made by mixing fine oatmeal with the drink, straining it, boiling it and sweetening it with sugar. 2015 (Nexis) 10 Mar. 18 It was also custom for mothers to share a warm spiced wine drink, caudle, with the women who'd helped them give birth, though that declined when doctors said it made mothers more prone to infection. society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] 1542 A. Borde sig. G.iiv Caudels made with hempe sede, and collesses made of shrympes doth comforte blode and nature.] 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ 17 He hath prooued you to haue deserued a cawdell of Hempseed, and a playster of neckweed. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. vii. 87 Ye shall haue a hempen Caudle [printed Candle; corrected 1685] then, & the help of hatchet. View more context for this quotation 1649 4 I..give and bequeath to all and every Member of Parliament a precious Receit called a Hempen Cawdle to cure them of any disease. Compounds the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > vessel for specific liquor 1610 in W. D. Wilson (1839) Pref. p. xii/2 Ane chafin dysche,..ane caddill coup. 1636 W. Davenant i. sig. B3v Tis gold! my Pendants, Carckanets, and Rings, My Christning Caudle-cup, and Spoones Are dissolv'd into that Lumpe. 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iii. vii, in III. 232 A Pint silver Caudle Cup, the Gift of her Grandmother. 1857 A. Bowman x. 142 A handsome caudle-cup is not an uncommon gift to a bride. 1917 F. H. Bigelow 105 The caudle cup is of purely English origin and was frequently called a porringer in England. 2016 E. McGoey 43 Most of the vessels made by silversmiths of Dummer's era, such as this caudle cup and tankard, were used for the consumption of alcoholic beverages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). caudlev.1Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: caudle n. Etymology: < caudle n. Compare coddle v.1, coddle v.2, and caddle v. Now rare. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. iii. 227 Will the cold brooke Candied with Ice, Cawdle thy Morning taste. View more context for this quotation the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)] > supply with specific drink 1649 W. Davenant iv. 23/3 Wid. Will you sit down and eat a little broth? Vas. I shall be cawdled like a Haberdashers wife That lies inn of her first child. 1680 T. Shadwell i. 7 Let her be taken in and rub'd and cawdled, as the Good Wives use the Phanatick Labourers in the Gospel. 1832 32 458 [They] would, under other circumstances, have caudled and beflannelled themselves. the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > be infatuatedly fond or love to excess [verb (transitive)] > pet, indulge, or pamper 1662 R. L'Estrange i. viii. 61 By good order, it [sc. the Cause] might have been Caudled up, and kept above ground a little longer: but still it seems to Me, that before Oliver Dy'd, the Cause was Bed-rid, and Hectique past Recovery. 1677 Duke of Newcastle & T. Shadwell i. ii. 10 They are all Fools, caudled up by their Mothers. 1685 5 Feb. How Tenderly he was Happ'd and Caudled-up in the House of his Dear Mother. 1846 27 June 274/1 This other [class of men], instead of caudling his family, contrives always to caudle himself. 1868 T. Wright II. viii. 241 She insisted upon petting him and—as Dick afterwards put it—‘caudling him up’, in order to counteract the effects of the hard living he had been subjected to while away from home. 1918 19 Dec. 1150/2 The fine regard displayed by the French officers toward their men impressed me deeply. While they did not caudle them, yet they maintained a sympathetic feeling and understanding toward them. 2010 @ProudDaddyof1 20 May in twitter.com (accessed 30 Jan. 2020) Damn it mom quit caudling her! She has her own child! She needs to grow up sometime! the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] 1795 Shepherds of Lebanon ii. in 55 Blessings unsophisticate and pure; Not caudled for our taste with dregs terrene. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell II. 560 His Highness has..inextricably caudled the two together. 1922 1 Feb. 171/3 Posset was a concoction of milk caudled with wine and other ingredients. 2008 I. Mortimer (2009) viii. 174 When the ale begins to turn sour, it is flavoured with herbs and honey or caudled with egg yolks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † caudlev.2Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Caudle. Etymology: < the name of Mrs Caudle, a character in D. W. Jerrold's Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures (published as a column in Punch from 1845, and then as a separate work in 1846).The character of Mrs Caudle, a village gossip, in Isaac Pocock's 1833 comedy Scan Mag appears to be unconnected. Compare earlier (figurative) use of becaudle (compare be- prefix):1845 York Herald 19 July 4/4 His tact enables him to have as great a supremacy as Sir Robert Peel wields over the obedient and, as Commodore Napier said, the be-Caudled Commons. Chiefly humorous. Obsolete. 1845 Aug. 482/2 The mother is easily convinced..: she must Caudle her husband into the same conviction. 1845 15 Sept. Caudled to Death.—A man named Huffmar drowned himself in the Ohio Canal..in consequence of his wife's tongue giving him no peace at home. 1866 24 Feb. 113/3 A man ardently interested in the canvass would certainly make sure that his wife voted—but he would also make sure that she voted upon his side. Nay, if he were caudled into voting upon hers, [etc.]. 1910 29 Dec. 1202/2 Reasons Why Any Man Should Not Marry a Suffragette... He'd sooner cuddle than be Caudled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020). < |