quid

Speech parts

1. quid - Noun

2. quid - Verb

Meaning

A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

WAD pound plug chew cud chaw pound sterling quid pro quo British pound British pound sterling mass lear cavendish sterling libra
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Antonyms

few little debt obligation liability peanuts
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Hypernyms

bit consideration bite retainer morsel British monetary unit

Phrases with the word

no quid pro quo

Anagrams

Qidu

Examples

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me. Terry Pratchett

I was expecting Pop Bassett to give an impersonation of a bomb falling on an ammunition dump, but he didn't. Instead, he continued to exhibit that sort of chilly stiffness which you see in magistrates when they're fining people five quid for boyish peccadilloes. P. G. Wodehouse

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. Nick Rahall

I WANT NOTHING I WANT NOTHING I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO. TELL ZELLINSKY TO DO THE RIGHT THING. THIS IS THE FINAL WORD FROM THE PRES. OF THE U.S. Donald Trump

Everyone thinks they'll make a better judge than any judge don't they? You see these nonces getting off with a six quid fine and being given a house next door to a school. And you think 'I wouldn't have done that.' John Cooper Clarke

(When asked about the method for a trick where a member of the public answers a public pay-phone only to immediately slump to the floor as if asleep) I was saying ‘there's fifty quid under the phone book. Just pretend. You're on TV'. Derren Brown

Close letter words and terms

quicumque vult Quicunque quicunque vult quid pro quo quidam quiddany