Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cut, as of chewing tobacco.
- noun A pound sterling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun What; nature; substance.
- noun Something: used chiefly in the phrase tertium quid (see below). See
predication . - To drop partly masticated food from the mouth: said of horses.
- noun A sovereign (£1).
- noun A cnd.
- noun A portion suitable to be chewed; specifically, a piece of tobacco chewed and rolled about in the mouth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang, Eng. An English coin, a sovereign.
- transitive verb (Man.) To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.
- noun A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A piece of
chewing tobacco . - noun US, colloquial the act of chewing such tobacco
- verb To
chew tobacco - verb of a horse To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing
- noun historical A
sovereign orguinea . - noun UK, colloquial
Pound sterling . - noun Australia, colloquial
pound (before the 1966 currency change) - noun Ireland, colloquial
pound ,punt - noun Ireland, colloquial
euro - noun The inherent nature of something.
- noun US, historical A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from
tertium quid ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises
- noun a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- noun the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_Et quid Pandoniae_ -- thus, little book, I charge you to poultice your more-merited oblivion -- _quid Pandoniae restat nisi nomen Athenae?
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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_Et quid Pandoniae_ -- thus, little book, I charge you poultice your more-merited oblivion -- _quid Pandoniae restat nisi nomen Athenae_?
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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I seem to remember a guy called montechristo on here bailed at 135 hoping for a retrace to less than a quid, he hasnt been back for a while, I seem to remember in the last RNS they were tendering for £9 billion worth of contracts, I dont believe we have hit peak oil yet but once we do the price of oil will rise as extraction gets more and more costly I.E. BP's huge find in the gulf oif mexico which is going to cost them $28 per barrell to extract dude they were 5 quid+ less than 18 months ago, the fundamentals of the company remain strong and yes they do need more orders and I am sure that scott doak is working on that as we speak obviously myself and sheffy are big fans as we averaged down in the darkest days of march, but from all my research Lamprell is a well run company with no big debt pile (in fact cash at hand) and in the right location to service its customers Datafeed and UK data supplied by ProQuote.
unknown title 2009
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I seem to remember a guy called montechristo on here bailed at 135 hoping for a retrace to less than a quid, he hasnt been back for a while, I seem to remember in the last RNS they were tendering for £9 billion worth of contracts, I dont believe we have hit peak oil yet but once we do the price of oil will rise as extraction gets more and more costly I.E. BP's huge find in the gulf oif mexico which is going to cost them $28 per barrell to extract dude they were 5 quid+ less than 18 months ago, the fundamentals of the company remain strong and yes they do need more orders and I am sure that scott doak is working on that as we speak obviously myself and sheffy are big fans as we averaged down in the darkest days of march, but from all my research Lamprell is a well run company with no big debt pile (in fact cash at hand) and in the right location to service its customers Datafeed and UK data supplied by ProQuote.
unknown title 2009
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I seem to remember a guy called montechristo on here bailed at 135 hoping for a retrace to less than a quid, he hasnt been back for a while, I seem to remember in the last RNS they were tendering for £9 billion worth of contracts, I dont believe we have hit peak oil yet but once we do the price of oil will rise as extraction gets more and more costly I.E. BP's huge find in the gulf oif mexico which is going to cost them $28 per barrell to extract dude they were 5 quid+ less than 18 months ago, the fundamentals of the company remain strong and yes they do need more orders and I am sure that scott doak is working on that as we speak obviously myself and sheffy are big fans as we averaged down in the darkest days of march, but from all my research Lamprell is a well run company with no big debt pile (in fact cash at hand) and in the right location to service its customers Datafeed and UK data supplied by ProQuote.
unknown title 2009
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The Romans used the phrase quid pro quo—“something for something.”
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Are you getting any sense at all that some of these talks may involve, I don't know if you want to use the term quid pro quo, but is Vice President Cheney, rather, talking with these leaders about getting their support on Iraq just because of what the U.S. has now proposed in the U.N. Security Council, and what they are trying to get done on the ground there in Jerusalem -- I'm sorry, not in Jerusalem, but in that region there?
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Kyle wouldn't do that any more than he would engage in quid pro quo.
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They still cost 20 quid per pair to post, but getting the boots including postage under 100 quid is pretty damn good!
Frivolity and fun... lyzbeth 2008
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They still cost 20 quid per pair to post, but getting the boots including postage under 100 quid is pretty damn good!
lyzbeth: Boots! lyzbeth 2008
Prolagus commented on the word quid
I'll lend you two hundred quid
For a flight across the ocean
Maybe things will look better there
Because they couldn't be much worse
Than tears and a curse
For men with guns, maturing in age
Will always pay a shitty wage
They'll always pay a shitty wage.
(You made me forget my dreams, by Belle and Sebastian)
September 16, 2008
bilby commented on the word quid
A cnd!
November 8, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word quid
I think that was meant to be "a cud," (I see that n/u mistake a lot in the Century definitions). But from now on, in my mind quid = cnd.
November 8, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word quid
What a cuddity (cwiduity)!
Can one be too chewsy?
November 8, 2012