quid
1
9.9
- noun
- /kwɪd/
- Archaic
:
trozo de tabaco para mascar
- Before she could say anything, the oldest of the women rolled her tongue into her lip and spat through the quid.
Examples
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Liz, have you got a quid?
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Betel nut chewers take the quid and place it in their mouth between the cheek and gum.
Blog text (24) -
"She'll disappear one day, you watch," he warned, cutting another chew off the quid of tobacco that bulged in his hip pocket.
Fiction book (1991) -
He almost simultaneously spits a quid of sireh and a mouthful of red spittle all over the boy's face and chest, a shock almost as great as the knifeblow.
Academic text (1991) -
Leibniz will hold in this correspondence that the corporeal substance (a notion that he applies to organisms or machines of nature) is united in virtue of this tertium quid, a "real unifier," a vinculum.
Academic text (2016) -
Many tobacco enthusiasts enjoy chewing a quid while relaxing outdoors.
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After a long day, he often chews a quid of tobacco to unwind.
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She offered him a quid of her flavored tobacco to try.
Synonyms
24
6.4
A small piece of tobacco or gum kept in the mouth to bite
16
3.2
A small soft lump of material pressed together
9
9.9
A small piece of chewing tobacco pressed into a shape to chew
4
9.9
A small piece of tobacco or gum that you put in your cheek to chew
1
8.4
A small wad of tobacco that people keep in the mouth and chew
Idioms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quid for a small lump of tobacco comes from an older use of quid meaning 'a piece' or 'a small lump'. So a tobacco quid is simply a little piece of tobacco you keep in your mouth.