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    Quid is a casual British word for one pound in money — 'it cost me twenty quid' means twenty pounds. Unlike most nouns, quid doesn't change in the plural — you say 'five quid,' never 'five quids.' It's an everyday, spoken word, not something you'd write in a formal document, where you'd write '£20' or 'twenty pounds' instead.

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組成The origin isn't fully agreed on, but some people connect it to the Latin phrase quid pro quo, meaning 'something for something.'

原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

quidnoun詞源 1/kwɪd/

  • 1

    The inherent nature of something.

  • 2

    historicalA member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)

  • 3

    Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.

    • […]; but what is the quo for which they ought to give the quid? you say they ought to give a quid pro quo; what is the quo? […]; did not they give you a pretty handsome quid for the quo there?
    • Indeed, asymmetry precludes the possibility of pointing to any particular quo that is meant to recompense the quid. […]If there exists any kind of inequity between quid and quo, then—on this line of argument—the expansive category of “friendship” emerges to account for it, siphoning the situation away from the class of objectionable quid pro quo. The claim officials here make—that for a quid to have a quo there must be some equivalency between the two—draws theoretical sustenance from the objective, exclusionary approach that critics of classical contract law apply to disproportionate exchanges.

quidnoun詞源 2/kwɪd/

  • 1

    Pound (currency). (usually used with a whole number of pounds)

    • Seven quid for a toastie? Are you taking the mick?!
  • 2

    historicalA sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.

    • They invited him to come to-morrow, […] and bring half a quid with him.
    • Isn't this the chance of a lifetime? Have either of you ever made a couple of quids at once in your puff before—pinching goods from the back of delivery vans and smooching lead off empty houses?
  • 3

    historicalVarious national currencies typically known by the name "pound".

  • 4

    Euro.

  • 5

    rareDollar, dollars.

quidnoun詞源 3/kwɪd/

  • 1

    A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.

    • Then he lay quiet for a little, and then, pulling out a stick of tobacco, begged me to cut him a quid.
    • He broke off to open a small brass tobacco-box and place a little quid of tobacco tenderly into a pouch in his left cheek, […]
  • 2

    The act of chewing such tobacco.

quidverb詞源 3/kwɪd/

  • 1

    To chew tobacco.

    • Ah! the pig-tailed, quidding pirates and the pretty pranks we played
  • 2

    To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing.

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