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† Cradden, -on. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. † Cradden, -on sb. and a. Obs. exc. dial. Also 6–7 Sc. crau-, crawdoun; 8–9 dial. craddant. [Derivation uncertain: possibly the same word as CRATHON, but app. associated in Sc. with craw to crow and down; several quots. refer to or suggest a cock that will not fight.] A craven, a coward.

1 1513.  Douglas, Æneis, XI. Prol. 119. Becum thow cowart, craudoun recryand, And by consent cry cok, thi deid is dycht.

2 1571.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., IV. (1586), 158. Neither must you … have him [the cock] a Craddon, for he must sometime stand in the defence of his wife and children.

3 1606.  Birnie, Kirk-Buriall (1833), 23. It wold make our craw-down fedrum fal.

4 1825–79.  Jamieson, Cradden, a dwarf. Lanarks.

5   Hence † Craddenly a., cowardly.

6 1674.  Ray, N. C. Words, Crassantly, as a crassantly lad, a coward. Chesh. In Lancashire they say craddantly.

7   So 1692–1732.  in Coles.

8 1742–1800.  Bailey, A Craddantly Lad, a Coward. Lancash.

9 1787.  Grose, Prov. Gloss., Craddenly, cowardly. North.

10 1847–78.  Halliwell, Craddantly.

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