Quidlet vs Quillet - What's the difference?
quidlet | quillet |
(UK, New Zealand, Australia, informal) quid; pound in money
* 1935 , George Goodchild, Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts, They all do it!: and two other plays
* 1939 , The Strand magazine (volume 97?)
* 1972 , Bruce Marshall, The black oxen
A quibble, an evasive distinction.
* 1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act.V sc.1
*:Where be his quiddities now - his quillets , his cases, his tenures and his tricks?
*, NYRB, 2001, vol.1, p.327-8:
*:Hence it comes that such a pack of vile buffoonsintrude with unwashed feet upon the sacred precinct of Theology, bringing with them nothing save brazen impudence, and some hackneyed quillets and scholastic trifles not good enough for a crowd at a street corner.
A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field.
As nouns the difference between quidlet and quillet
is that quidlet is (uk|new zealand|australia|informal) quid; pound in money while quillet is a quibble, an evasive distinction or quillet can be a small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field.quidlet
English
Noun
(en noun)- All we want to see is that our three hundred quidlets are sitting comfy in the bank.
- Say he had lost five thousand quidlets . And what about it? What were five thousand paper quidlets to him?
- Two-fifty quidlets , Mr. Duncan — you can't get a really posh stone for less. In any case it wouldn't be only an emerald or a sapphire you'd be buying...