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nouna short, thick stick used as a weapon; club. verb (used with object), cudg·eled, cudg·el·ing, or (especially British) cudg·elled, cudg·el·ling.to strike with a cudgel; beat. Idioms for cudgelcudgel one's brains, to try to comprehend or remember: I cudgeled my brains to recall her name. take up the cudgels, to come to the defense or aid of someone or something.
Origin of cudgelbefore 900; Middle English cuggel,Old English cycgel; akin to German Kugel ball OTHER WORDS FROM cudgelcudg·el·er; especially British, cud·gel·ler, nounun·cudg·eled, adjectiveun·cudg·elled, adjectiveWords nearby cudgelCudahy, cudbear, cuddle, cuddly, cuddy, cudgel, cudgel one's brains, cudgerie, Cudjo, Cudlipp, cudweed Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cudgelYou have this privilege to be famous and you use it as a cudgel? Canada’s Subversive Sock Puppet: Ed the Sock Isn’t Afraid to Say Anything|Soraya Roberts|November 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST Gina Dominguez, the spokeswoman for Gov. Javier Duarte and his cudgel with the local press, resigned a mere three days later. Mexican Journalists Speak Out on Reporter Murders|Jason McGahan|June 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST The insane, obscene, yawning difference between the pay of workers and bosses has long been used as a cudgel by labor groups. The SEC Can’t Make CEOs Care About Their Employees|Daniel Gross|September 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST They just want any cudgel they can find to beat Obama over the head, so Snowden suits their purposes for now. Snowden and the Right|Michael Tomasky|June 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The cudgel that President Obama is whacking House Republicans with is the cudgel they themselves put in his hand. Sequestration Empowered President Obama|David Frum|April 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST (the valorous;) rebaptize thee with a cudgel, and then hang thee. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine--Volume 62, No. 386, December, 1847|Various He no longer strutted as he was wont to do; he no longer carried a cudgel as if he wished to wage a universal battle with mankind. Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories|William Carleton His quick eye spied a capstan bar which he snatched up as a cudgel. Blackbeard: Buccaneer|Ralph D. Paine But cudgel his brain as he would, he could only think of asking: 'Pray, what is your name?' His Masterpiece|Emile Zola "I will bestow the cudgel on thee if thou stay'st," said Henry. The Fair Maid of Perth|Sir Walter Scott
British Dictionary definitions for cudgel
nouna short stout stick used as a weapon take up the cudgels (often foll by for or on behalf of) to join in a dispute, esp to defend oneself or another verb -els, -elling or -elled or US -els, -eling or -eled(tr) to strike with a cudgel or similar weapon cudgel one's brains to think hard about a problem Derived forms of cudgelcudgeller, nounWord Origin for cudgelOld English cycgel; related to Middle Dutch koghele stick with knob Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to cudgeltruncheon, nightstick, mace, bat, cane, club, rod, bludgeon, switch, stick, paddle, sap, blackjack, bastinado, ferule, shillelagh, cosh, billy, birch, shill |