quid

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
noun something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises
noun a wad of something chewable as tobacco

Borrowed from Latin quid (“what, something”), neuter singular of quis (“who”).

—Twelve quid, Buck Mulligan said. — Ulysses, James Joyce
“That's queer,” said the Tertium Quid. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
Give up a hundred thousand quid?" — The case-book of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

British pound, pound, British pound sterling, pound sterling

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