quattie
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]quattie (plural quatties)
Jamaican Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English quarter. A coin whose value was a quarter of a sixpence, i.e. 1½p.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]quattie (plural quattie dem, quantified quattie)
- (historical) one-and-a-half pence.
- (idiomatic) chicken feed, a paltry sum (a neglible amount)
- Not a quattie worth sell. ― The money we got for what we sold was chicken feed.
Further reading
[edit]- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 460
- quattie – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary
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