quidlet

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English

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Etymology

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From quid (pound) +‎ -let (forming diminutives).

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Noun

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quidlet (plural quidlets)

  1. (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 []

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