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▪ I. ‖ quid, n.1|kwɪd|
[L. quid what, anything, something, neut. sing. of quis who, any one, etc.]
1. That which a thing is. Cf. quiddity 1.
1606Marston Parasitaster i. ii, My age Hath seene the beings and the quide [sic] of things. 1611L. Barry Ram Alley in Dodsley (1874) X. 363 A widow that has known the quid of things. 1675[Bp. Croft] Naked Truth 25 The quid, the quale, the quantum, and such-like quack-salving forms. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Hence we have two kinds of quids, nominal..and real. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 270 When I do not know the ‘quid’ of anything how can I know the ‘quale’?
†2. = quiddit, quiddity 2. Obs. rare—1.
1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 77 That Logicke leape not ouer euery stile..With curious quids to maintaine argument.
3. U.S. (abbrev. of tertium quid.) A name given to a section of the Republican party in 1805–11.
1805Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 45 Those called the third party, or Quids. 1882H. Adams J. Randolph (1884) 182 He belonged to the third party, the quiddists or quids, being that tertium quid..which had no name, but was really an anti-Madison movement.
▪ II. quid, n.2 slang.
[Of obscure origin.]
1. a. A sovereign; one pound sterling; † a guinea. slang.
(Pl. usually without -s, as two quid, a few quid, etc.).
1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia iii. i, Let me equip thee with a Quid. 1791–3in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1799) I. 244 The man..rarely has more than from thirty to fifty quids a year. 1796Mod. Gulliver 165 The twenty last are worth full forty quid. 1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood III. iii. xiii. 166 One quid, two coach wheels. 1883Besant All in Garden Fair ii. x, It isn't two quid a week that will keep a young gentleman of your powers. 1907G. B. Shaw Major Barbara ii. 241, I ad two quid saved agen the frost; an Ive a pahnd of it left. 1917A. G. Empey Over Top 304 Quid, Tommy's term for a pound or twenty shillings... He is not on very good terms with this amount as you never see the two together. 1929W. P. Ridge Affectionate Regards 71 Milton received only ten quid for the first edition of ‘Paradise Lost’. 1951People 3 June 2/2 It took less than a couple of quid on the down trip. 1959I. Jefferies Thirteen Days xi. 183 You buy a car, it costs you a thousand quid; but you get a girl like that free. 1968K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 74, I was thinking of moving on a bit but there are still enough here to make a few quid. 1971Venerabile XXV. iii. 191 It is surprising what difficulties the good old English quid can cause. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds vii. 160 Do you want to go after Auntie Mary's thirteen million quid?
b. Phr. quids in: in luck or profit; well off for money. slang.
1919Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/2 Quid's in, for a stroke of good fortune. 1939W. Allen Blind Man's Ditch 236 We'll be quids in to-morrow. 1960O. Manning Great Fortune xix. 226 Anyone who financed the trip would be quids in. 1969J. N. Chance Abel Coincidence x. 187 If you know about people and they know nothing about you, you're quids in at the starting grid. 1976News of World 14 Mar. 19/4 And to make sure you are quids in anyway, we'll give you as well the starting price odds to {pstlg}10 each way on whichever horse does win.
c. Phr. the full quid: (see quot. 1959). Austral. and N.Z. slang.
1946Coast to Coast 1945 106 ‘There's some say Lizzie's not the full quid either,’ he said. 1959Baker Drum ii. 111 Full quid, in full possession of one's faculties. A person who is said to be ten bob in the quid or any smaller sum down to tuppence in the quid, is held to be stupid. 1960N. Hilliard Maori Girl iii. vi. 213 Not that she was simple in the sense that she was short of the full quid. 1972I. Moffitt U-Jack Society xiv. 227 We avoid individuality as firmly as we suspect joy (‘You're not the full quid!’). 1975Sydney Morning Herald 5 July 9 It's perfectly clear that not all members of our community are the full quid.
†2. pl. (with -s.) Money, cash. Obs. rare.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew.
▪ III. quid, n.3|kwɪd|
[var. of cud n. q.v.]
1. A piece of something (usu. of tobacco), suitable to be held in the mouth and chewed.
1727in Bailey vol. II. 1731 Gentl. Mag. I. 349 Spitting about the church..As if he'd got a quid in's mouth. 1789G. Keate Pelew Isl. 27 Beetle-nut and Chinam, of which they had always a quid in their mouths. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 89 The first lieutenant..perceived that he had a quid of tobacco in his cheek. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. (1886) 68 His mind was..revolving the problem of existence like a quid of gum.
fig.1805W. Hunter in Naval Chron. XIII. 35, I chewed my Quid of bitterness.
2. = cast n. 19 and pellet n.1 2 c.
1834[see pellet n.1 2 c]. 1879–81G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 315 Them owls..sin a mouze..an' ketchen 'im..an' chawen 'im..'an crushen 'im, an' sooken 'im till theer inna nuthin' left on 'im, an' then they droppen the quid.
▪ IV. † quid, v.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 cwyddian, 2–3 cwidden, quidd(i)en.
[OE. cwiddian, f. *cwidi- quide (q.v.).]
trans. and intr. To say, speak.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 388 Crist hi befran hu men cwyddodon be him. c1200Ormin 3048 Þatt illke word wass cwiddedd ær. c1205Lay. 9825 Bi-þenc þu a þine quides þe þu sulf quiddest. c1275Woman Samaria 55 in O.E. Misc. 85 Nv quiddeþ men, þat cumen is Messyas.
▪ V. quid, v.2
[f. quid n.3]
1. intr. To chew tobacco; to chew the cud.
1775in Ash. 1778Gentl. Mag. July 311/1 The cow chews her cud, and the man, when he chews tobacco, calls it quidding. 1893Surrey Gloss., Quidding, chewing the cud. ‘The heifer's getting better, she's quidding all right’. 1902J. Masefield Salt-Water Ballads 66 Quiddin' bonded Jacky out a-lee.
2. trans. Of horses: To let (food) drop from the mouth when half chewed.
1831Youatt Horse (1847) 258 The Horse quids his hay, and gulps his water. 1888W. Williams Princ. Vet. Med. (ed. 5) 376 Soreness of the throat is indicated by ‘quidding of the food’.
Hence ˈquidder, a horse which ‘quids’ (Cassell's Encycl. Dict. 1886). |