Crossword clues for quid
quid
- Pound, in British slang
- British pound, slangily
- __ pro quo: substitute
- Pound (slang)
- Brit's pound
- ____ pro quo
- Twenty bob in England
- Trade for a quo
- Slangy pounds
- Pro quo
- Pounds, to a Brit
- Pounds, in old London
- Pounds in Plymouth
- Pounds in London
- Pound sterling (slang)
- Pound note
- Pound — lump of chewing tobacco
- Partner of quo
- One fifth of a fiver
- Nicker (slang)
- British pound: Slang
- British pound, in slang
- British pound sterling
- British pound
- British buck
- 100p (slang)
- -- pro quo
- Chewable wad
- Pounds, informally
- Piccadilly pound
- British pound, informally
- Pound sterling, informally
- Pound, in Piccadilly
- Mouthful of tobacco
- Pound sterling, slangily
- ___ pro quo
- The basic unit of money in Great Britain
- Equal to 100 pence
- A wad of something chewable as tobacco
- One pound sterling
- A pound, in Soho
- Tobacco chaw
- Quo's partner
- Soho pound
- Plug
- Tobacco chew
- Wad of chewing tobacco
- Pound - lump of chewing tobacco
- British currency - one old penny with Queen on
- Headless calamari that's chewed
- £1 (informal)
- British money
- Wad of tobacco
- Change for a fiver
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quid \Quid\ (kw[i^]d), n.; pl. quid. [Etym. uncertain.] An English coin, a sovereign. [Slang, Eng.]
They invited him to come to-morrow, . . . and bring
half a quid with him.
--Charles
Reade.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bite-sized piece" (of tobacco, etc.), 1727, dialectal variant of Middle English cudde, from Old English cudu, cwidu (see cud).
"one pound sterling," 1680s, British slang, possibly from quid "that which is, essence," (c.1600, see quiddity), as used in quid pro quo (q.v.), or directly from Latin quid "what, something, anything." Compare French quibus, noted in Barrêre's dictionary of French argot (1889) for "money, cash," said to be short for quibus fiunt omnia.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 The inherent nature of something. 2 (context US historical English) A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (''from tertium quid''). Etymology 2
n. 1 (context historical English) A sovereign or guine
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2 (context British colloquial English) pound sterling. 3 (context Australia colloquial English) pound (qualifier: before the 1966 currency change) 4 (context Ireland colloquial English) pound, punt 5 (context Ireland colloquial English) euro 6 (context United States colloquial English) dollar Etymology 3
n. 1 A piece of chewing tobacco. 2 (context US colloquial English) the act of chewing such tobacco v
1 To chew tobacco 2 (context of a horse English) To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing
WordNet
n. the basic unit of money in Great Britain; equal to 100 pence [syn: British pound, pound, pound sterling]
something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises [syn: quid pro quo]
a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, plug, wad]
Wikipedia
Quid may refer to:
- Pound sterling, British slang for £1 in currency
- Australian pound, Australian slang (no longer issued)
- Euro or the former Irish pound in the Republic of Ireland
- Quid (encyclopedia), a French encyclopedia
- Tertium quids, factions of the United States Democratic-Republican Party between 1804 and 1812
- Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, a prototype for a possible future type of currency for use by space tourists
- Quidding, a dental problem sometimes found in horse teeth where the animal drops partially chewed food while chewing, or chews with the mouth open
- A piece of chewing tobacco
Quid is a French encyclopedia, established in 1963 by Dominique Frémy. It was published annually between 1963 and 2007, first by Plon (1963-1974) and later by Éditions Robert Laffont (1975-2007), and was the most popular encyclopedic reference work in France.
The presentation is very compressed, and abbreviations are used extensively in telegraph style. It uses very thin paper to get all the information into one volume. It is published each year in one volume about the size of a large dictionary. The motto of the work is "tout sur tout ... Et tout de suite " (roughly translated as: "All about everything ... and right away"). Examples of the precise information included in Quid are: a) the use of moustaches among Austrian mailmen is forbidden to avoid them being confused with military officers; b) in 1850 there were 1,400,000 inhabitants in Finland, and c) in the West, a woman spends an average of 100 days of her life in ironing.
Usage examples of "quid".
Postero die Caesar contione advocata temeritatem cupiditatemque militum reprehendit, quod sibi ipsi iudicavissent quo procedendum aut quid agendum videretur, neque signo recipiendi dato constitissent neque ab tribunis militum legatisque retineri potuissent.
In a shearing shed in full swing in a good season it would have been quids, half-quids, casers, and at the lowest half-casers permitted.
Cum propter longitudinem agminis minus facile omnia per se obire et, quid quoque loco faciendum esset, providere possent, iusserunt pronuntiare, ut impedimenta relinquerent atque in orbem consisterent.
Labienus, postquam neque aggeres neque fossae vim hostium sustinere poterant, coactis una XL cohortibus, quas ex proximis praesidus deductas fors obtulit, Caesarem per nuntios facit certiorem quid faciendum existimet.
Sturge shrugged his shoulders and walked forward to seek Ben Jope, whom he found by the forecastle hatchway engaged in slicing a quid of black tobacco.
Exposuit quid iniquitas loci posset, quid ipse ad Avaricum sensisset, cum sine duce et sine equitatu deprehensis hostibus exploratam victoriam dimisisset, ne parvum modo detrimentum in contentione propter iniquitatem loci accideret.
At tu, O Tisisthenes, ne quid quorum mando nauci fac: necesse enim est mulierem exquirere si qua Vite mysterium impetres et vindicare, quautum in te est, patrem tuum Callieratem in regine morte.
At ei, qui Alesiae obsidebantur praeterita die, qua auxilia suorum exspectaverant, consumpto omni frumento, inscii quid in Aeduis gereretur, concilio coacto de exitu suarum fortunarum consultabant.
Consumitur vigiliis reliqua pars noctis, cum sua quisque miles circumspiceret, quic secum portare posset, quid ex instrumento hibernorum relinquere cogeretur.
If she threw up in the cab he was in dead shtuck, because if down here was anything like Leeds they charged you twenty quid for having to hose it down.
Mr Taglioni struggled with the bullet and finally got it into a corner of his cheek where it bulged like a quid of tobacco.
Ibi per certos exploratores in singula diei tempora quae ad Avaricum agerentur cognoscebat et quid fieri vellet imperabat.
Postero die Caesar promota turri perfectisque operibus quae facere instituerat, magno coorto imbre non inutilem hanc ad capiendum consilium tempestatem arbitratus est, quod paulo incautius custodias in muro dispositas videbat, suosque languidius in opere versari iussit et quid fieri vellet ostendit.
The same whifflers drift aimlessly about hoping to make a few quid on the side, crooked auctioneers, crooked vannies, crooked antique dealers moaning that the antiques are pure unadulterated gunge.
Forty-eight hours from now yiz got to come up with the readies, ten thousand quid!