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quidlet
quidlet
English
Noun
quidlet (plural quidlets)
- (Britain, 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...
- 1935, George Goodchild, Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts, They all do it!: and two other plays