quidlet

English

Etymology

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

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Noun

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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