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‖ quaiss kitir, int. Mil. slang.|kwaɪs kɪˈtɪə(r)|
Also kwais ketir, quash kateer, quies kiteer, etc.
[ad. Egyptian Arab. kway·yis, dim. cl. Arab. kayyis fine + kətīr, f. cl. Arab. kaṯīran very.]
Very good! Very well! O.K.! Also quies, quash, quois a., good, nice, satisfactory.
1898G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartoum ii. 13 When the recruit made a bull..the white sergeant, standing behind him with a paper, cried ‘Quaiss kitir’—‘Very good’. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 40 Quies (Arab.), good. Quies-kiteer (Arab.), very good. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 233 Quash, good; nice. An Arabic word (khwush) in use colloquially on Eastern Fronts. Quash kateer, very good. 1947D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 199 Our outfit was parked in a cornfield off the track and very quois it was too. We used to go swimming in the Liri every day. 1965Brophy & Partridge Long Trail 168 Quaies kateah, very good. Arabic. Very common with troops in Egypt or with Regulars that had been there. 1967W. H. Canaway Mules of Borgo San Marco ix. 101 ‘They'll take us off to Germany and make us have nowt but sausages and beer.’ Sergeant Entwistle said, ‘Sausages and beer, kwais ketir, I wish I had some now instead of this muck.’ 1967Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 10 Sept. 46/4 Quiess, good!, capital! ‘Quiess kateer’ = very well, the answer to the question ‘enta quiess?’, you well? |