quid

Less common meanings

4. 4
   verbintransitive

   To chew on tobacco.

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

   1902, John Masefield, A Ballad of John SilverHere, quidding means chewing tobacco.

   Similarchew

5. 5
   nouncolloquialUSuncountable

   The act of chewing on tobacco.
6. 6
   pound (other countries)nouncolloquialhistoricalCommonwealthIrelandcountable

   In places like Ireland or Australia, one unit of the local money: once a pound, now sometimes a euro or dollar.

   Before the euro, my grandmother paid ten quid a week for her flat in Cork.

   In old Australian money, a quid bought a lot more than a dollar does now.

   Similarpound, dollar, buck

   Note
7. 7
   nounhistoricalcountable

   An old British coin called a sovereign or guinea, or the same amount of money.

   Similarsovereign, guinea

   Note
8. 8
   noun

   What something really is, deep down.
9. 9
   nounUS

   A member of a group inside an early American political party who followed John Randolph from 1805 to 1811.
10. 10
    verb

    Of a horse, to let bits of food fall from its mouth as it chews.