quidlet
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Etymology edit
From quid (“pound”) + -let (“forming diminutives”).
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Noun edit
quidlet (plural quidlets)
- (UK, colloquial) Synonym of quid: one pound sterling.
- 1935, George Goodchild, Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts, They all do it!: and two other plays:
- All we want to see is that our three hundred quidlets are sitting comfy in the bank.
- 1939, The Strand magazine, volume 97:
- Say he had lost five thousand quidlets. And what about it? What were five thousand paper quidlets to him?
- 1972, Bruce Marshall, The black oxen:
- Two-fifty quidlets, Mr. Duncan — you can't get a really posh stone for less. In any case it wouldn't be only an emerald or a sapphire you'd be buying […]