quidlet

plural quidlets

1. UKcolloquialSynonym of quid: one pound sterling.

   All we want to see is that our three hundred quidlets are sitting comfy in the bank.

   1935, George Goodchild, Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts, They all do it!: and two other plays

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   Say he had lost five thousand quidlets. And what about it? What were five thousand paper quidlets to him?

   1939, The Strand magazine, volume 97

   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 […]

   1972, Bruce Marshall, The black oxen

   Synonyms: quid