Word of the Day
Thursday, November 08, 2012Quid
\ KWID \, noun;
1.
A piece of something to be chewed but not swallowed.
2.
One pound sterling.
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| One Pound Sterling Something our students spent lots of during Summer 2012 |
Julius took the twist, wiped off his mouth with a loose male grin, and crammed a
large quid into his cheek.
-- Thomas Wolfe, O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life
When he'd lost, he'd chew on his quid and spit in all directions .
-- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Death on the Installment Plan
Quid is a dialectal variant of the same word in Middle English that leads to cud,
the stuff that cows chew.
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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