[var. of CUD sb. q.v.] A piece of something (usu. of tobacco), suitable to be held in the month and chewed.

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1727.  in Bailey, vol. II.

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1731.  Gentl. Mag., I. 349/2.

        Spitting about the church in troth,
As if he’d got a quid in’s mouth.

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1789.  G. Keate, Pelew Isl., 27. Beetle-nut and Chinam, of which they had always a quid in their mouths.

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1833.  Marryat, P. Simple (1863), 89. The first lieutenant … perceived that he had a quid of tobacco in his cheek.

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1883.  Stevenson, Silverado Sq. (1886), 68. His mind was … revolving the problem of existence like a quid of gum.

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  fig.  1805.  W. Hunter, in Naval Chron., XIII. 35. I chewed my Quid of bitterness.

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