Green’s Dictionary of Slang

used in oaths as a euph. for God’s, e.g. cud’s bobs! God’s body!

1600		Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle II i: Cuds bores, master Harpool, I’ll haue one busse too.
1607		Middleton A Trick to Catch the Old One IV iv: Cuds me, as pat as can be!
1613		Middleton Chaste Maid in Cheapside II i: Cud’s foot, she’s lost else, I shall miss her ever.
1675		Woman Turn’d Bully IV iii: Cuds bud, it’s the finest Song you e’re heard in your life. [Ibid.] V iii: Married! Cuds lid married?
1680		Merry Maid of Islington 1: Cuds heart Sir, what do you mean?
1692		‘Taylors Resolution to be Reveng’d of these Petticoat Press-Masters’ in Euing Broadside Ballads No. 4: Cuds-plutter-a-nails hur believes ’tis no Sin.
c.1709		Taffy’s Progress to London 2: Cuds Flesh hur fery Plood boils at hur now.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 264: His Cuds-pluter-a-nail, / Could not prevail, / For he whipt the Cambro-Britain.