[syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Quid \Quid\, n. [See Cud.]
A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of
tobacco.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Quid \Quid\ (kw[i^]d), n.; pl. quid. [Etym. uncertain.]
An English coin, a sovereign. [Slang, Eng.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
They invited him to come to-morrow, . . . and bring
half a quid with him. --Charles
Reade.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Quid \Quid\, v. t. (Man.)
To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; --
said of horses. --Youatt.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
quid
n 1: the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern
Ireland; equal to 100 pence [syn: British pound, pound,
British pound sterling, pound sterling, quid]
2: something for something; that which a party receives (or is
promised) in return for something he does or gives or
promises [syn: quid pro quo, quid]
3: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw,
cud, quid, plug, wad]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "quid":
axiom, bawbee, bite, bolus, cavendish, center, champ, chaw, chew,
chewing tobacco, chomp, core, crown, cud, cut plug, dollar,
eating tobacco, elixir, essence, essential, farthing, fid, fiver,
florin, flower, focus, fourpence, fourpenny, fundamental, gist,
gnash, gob, gravamen, groat, guinea, half crown, half dollar,
halfpenny, heart, hypostasis, inner essence, kernel, mag, marrow,
meat, meg, mite, monkey, morsel, mouthful, munch, navy, navy plug,
new pence, nibble, nip, np, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, p, pence,
penny, pigtail, pith, pony, postulate, pound, principle, quiddity,
quintessence, sap, shilling, sixpence, snap, soul, spirit, stuff,
substance, swallow, tenner, the nitty-gritty, threepence,
threepenny bit, thrippence, tobacco juice, tuppence, twist,
twopence