quidlet

English

Etymology

quid +‎ -let

Pronunciation

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Noun

quidlet (plural quidlets)

1. (UK, New Zealand, Australia, informal) quid; pound in money
   • 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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