Quid

Definition: Quid

Quid

Noun

1. The basic unit of money in Great Britain; equal to 100 pence.

2. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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QUID

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Synonyms: Quid

Pungency

Nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar; cigar, cigarette; weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier, rappee, stogy.

Crosswords: Quid

Latin (any, anybody, anyone, anything, how much how many, nisi, numquid, one or another, quid, quiddity, quidnunc, some, someone, something, what, what (thing), what kind of, what man, what thing, which one, who), Spanish (crux, gist).

I'd take a pain in the arse for half a million quid. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Ha! I could just see Little and Large prancing around Sheffield with their widges hanging out. Now that would be worth 10 quid (The Full Monty; writing credit: Simon Beaufoy)

Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn)

These underpants cost me a quid, and I've got about fifty pence worth stuck up my arse. (The Royle Family; writing credit: Caroline Aherne; Craig Cash)

Pimple Gets a Quid (1912)

Fifty Quid (2002)

Quid pro quo (2000)

Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid (1995)

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Books

• Easy Latin Crossword Puzzles: Quid Pro Quo (reference)

• K Foundation Burn a Million Quid (reference)

• Montesquieu: Quid Secundatus Politicae Scientiae Instituendae Contulerit (reference)

• Questions and Answers on Gift Substantiation and Quid Pro Quo Disclosure Statement Requirements for Private Schools (reference)

• Quid (Qualified Intrapersonal Decision-Making): How You Can Make the Best Decisions of Your Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Quid Novi (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

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In India, ... cancers occur[ing] in the mouth or pharynx ... believed to be due to the chewing of betel quid. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E. Schwab..

Adduxit ea ad Adam ut videret quid vocaret ea. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Le Général Washington ne quid detrimenti capiat res publica / Peint par L. Le Paon ; gravé par N. Le Mire. Credit: Library of Congress.

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His words are, Quid ergo, nulline casus incidere possunt quibus populo sese erigere atque in regem impotentius dominantem arma capere & invadere jure suo suaque authoritate liceat? Nulli certe quamdiu rex manet. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Monsieur Gillenormand had not accepted the (r)quid pro quo.

Carefully he brushed off bits of straw and gray pocket fuzz before he bit off a corner and settled the quid into his cheek.

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Civil Liberties

Russia

Many observers interpreted the protocol as a quid pro quo in which the Government agreed to drop its criminal investigations of Gusinskiy and Media-Most in exchange for receipt by Gazprom of a controlling share in NTV and Media-Most. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

They are the quid pro quo for tax, customs duty, or other privileges and benefits, as provided by the Law on State Support of Direct Investments. (references)

Lebanon

Companies may also encounter informal quid pro quo arrangements, discovering that to win a contract they must invest capital in a related project. (references)

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Expressions using "quid": cave quid dicis quando et cui ♦ it's a quid pro quo ♦ ne quid nimis ♦ quid of tobacco ♦ quid pro quo ♦ quid sit futurum cras fuge quaerere ♦ quid times? Caesarem vehis ♦ scire quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent ♦ tertium quid ♦ unum quid contact. Additional references.

Ending with "quid": fifty-quid, ten-quid, twenty-quid.

Containing "quid": eight-quid-a-bottle.

Albanian

duhan për të mbllaçitur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضغة من التبغ, ‏مضغة (bit, bite, chew, morsel), ‏جنيه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

късче тютюн за дъвчене. (various references)

Czech

libra (pound), žvanec tabáku. (various references)

Dutch

tegenwicht-effect (quid pro quo effect). (various references)

Farsi 

یک لیره , نشخوارکردن (Champ, Ruminate), نشخوار (Champ, Cud). (various references)

French

livre, déclaration quantitative des ingrédients (Quantitative Ingredient Declaration), chique. (various references)

German

pfund (half a kilo, lb, pound, smacker). (various references)

Greek 

λίρα (lira, pound), ταμάχιο για μάσημα. (various references)

Hebrew 

ליר�" (lira, pound), חתיכת טבק. (various references)

Hungarian

egy font sterling (one pound), bagó (chew, chewing tobacco, fag, negro head, peanuts, plug). (various references)

Italian

sterlina (pound, smacker, sterling, sterling silver). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

反対給付 (performance in return, quid pro quo). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

は�"たいきゅうふ (performance in return, quid pro quo). (various references)

Manx

punt (pound, punt). (various references)

Norwegian

pund. (various references)

Pig Latin

idquay

Portuguese

libra (libra, pound, pound sterling, scale). (various references)

Romanian

tutun de mestecat (chew), lirã (lira, lyre, nicker, pound, shell). (various references)

Russian 

фунт стерлингов (pound, pound sterling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

grudvica duvana za žvakanje, funta sterlinga. (various references)

Spanish

mascada de tabaco, libra (Libra, plate, pound, pound-weight, scales, sheet, slab, smacker). (various references)

Swedish

pund (lace, Libra, nicker, pound, pound (£), sovereign). (various references)

Turkish

sterlin (green pound, pound, smacker, sterling), pound (pound, sterling), çiğnenen şey (masticatory), çiğneme tütünü (chewing tabacco, pigtail, plug, plug tabacco). (various references)

Ukrainian

суть (alcohol, backbone, content, core, entity, essence, essential, existence, gist, hinge, inwardness, juice, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, matter, nature, net, nub, pith, point, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance), соверен (sovereign), шматок пресованого жувального тютюну, жувати жуйку (chew the cud), жувати пресований тютюн. (various references)

Vietnamese 

viên thuốc lá. (various references)

quid. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "quid": quiddities, quiddity, quidnunc, quidnuncs, quids. (additional references)

Words ending with "quid": charquid, equid, illiquid, liquid, nonliquid, semiliquid, soliquid, squid. (additional references)

Words containing "quid": equidistant, equidistantly, equids, illiquidities, illiquidity, liquidambar, liquidambars, liquidate, liquidated, liquidates, liquidating, liquidation, liquidations, liquidator, liquidators, liquidities, liquidity, liquidize, liquidized, liquidizes, liquidizing, liquidly, liquidness, liquidnesses, liquids, nonliquids, semiliquids, soliquids, squidded, squidding, squids. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: equad, iquid, Lquid, Ouida, Qadi, qai, qaid, Qaim, Qawi, qbid, qfi, Qgi, Qia, qiad, qic, qid, qik, qius, Qmi, qoi, qoid, qpi, Qsubd, quada, quadd, Quade, quadi, quado, quady, quaed, quag, quaid, quaif, quaix, quald, quand, quao, quard, quav, quaw, quax, qud, Qudis, qudy, quead, qued, quede, queed, quef, queid, querd, queyd, quia, quiad, quic, quida, quide, quidem, quidi, quido, quids, quidt, quidy, quie, quied, quif, quig, quih, quii, quiid, quij, quik, quild, quim, quind, quio, quiod, quipd, quir, quird, quiu, quiv, quiw, quix, quiy, qulid, qunid, quoc, quod, quoda, quode, quoid, quoj, Quow, quox, qupid, qurd, quri, quy, Qvi, Qwik, qwuid, uid, Uidh, zuid. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dui.

-2 letters: id.

+1 letter: equid, quids, squid.

+2 letters: diquat, equids, liquid, piqued, quired, squids.

+3 letters: cliqued, diquats, liquids, quadric, quailed, querida, queried, quieted, quilled, quilted, quinoid, quipped, quirked, quirted, quitted, quizzed, quoined, quoited, squalid, squired.

+4 letters: acquired, antiqued, bedquilt, charquid, daiquiri, disquiet, enquired, equipped, esquired, illiquid, inquired, liquated, liquidly, liquored, obliqued, quadding, quadrics, quadriga, quarried, quayside, queridas, quibbled, quiddity, quidnunc, quietude, quinoids, quivered, required, requited, sequined, soliquid, squibbed, squidded, squiffed, squinted, squirmed, squirted, squished.