quiet as a grave
Very quiet
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quiet as a mouse
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
quiet quit
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
quiffing
Rogering. See TO ROGER.
quill driver
A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer.
quill-driver
A scrivener, a clerk,—satirical phrase similar to "steel bar driver," a tailor.
quiller
A parasite, a person who sucks neatly through a quill. See SUCK UP.
quim
The private parts of a woman: perhaps from the Spanish quemar, to burn. (CAMBRIDGE) A piece's furbelow.
quinsey
Choked by a hempen quinsey; hanged.
quipps
Girds, taunts, jests.
quips of the law
See CEPOLA. The laws of the Medes and Persians. Un- alterable laws.
quirks and quillets
Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
quisby
Bankrupt, poverty-stricken. Amplification of QUEER.
quisi
Roguish, low, obscene.—Anglo-Chinese.
quit rent
A rent formerly paid by a tenant whereby he was released from feudal service. The term is still used of the small annual sum paid by some freeholders and copyholders in lieu of services due from them.
quit scores
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
quit the oxygen habit
To die.
quit while one is ahead
Stop an activity to preserve a favorable position
quitam
A quitam horse; one that will both carry and draw. LAW WIT.
quite a bit
a large amount or extent
quite a good player
Someone with a high level of skill
quite a long time
a considerable period
quite a lot
A large amount or quantity
quite a lot of something
A large amount or quantity of something
quite out of the running
Quite out of court, not worthy of consideration; like a horse which has been scratched for some race and so is not "in the running.
quite some
a large or significant amount
quite the kick
Quite a dandy. The Italians call a dandy a chic. The French chic means knack, as avoir le chic, to have the knack of doing a thing smartly.
quite washed out
Thoroughly exhausted, done up, with no strength or spirit left.
quiz
A strange-looking fellow, an odd dog. OXFORD.
quiz
A prying person, an odd fellow. Originally Oxford slang, but now general, and lately admitted into some dictionaries. See QUEER CUFFEN.
quizzing-glass
An eyeglass. This was applied to the old single eyeglass, which was not stuck in the eye, as now, but was held in the hand.
quo warranto
A writ against a defendant (whether an individual or a cor- poration) who lays claim to something he has no right to; so named because the offender is called upon to sh9W quo warranto (rerri) usurpavit (by what right or authority he lays claim to the matter of dispute.
quockerwodger
A wooden toy figure which, when pulled by a string, jerks its limbs about. The term is used in a slang sense, to signify a pseudo-politician, one whose strings of action are pulled by somebody else.
quod
Newgate, or any other prison. The dab's in quod; the poor rogue is in prison.
quod
A prison, a lock-up; QUODDED, put in prison. QUOD is really a shortening of quadrangle; so to be QUODDED is to be within four walls. The expression is, however, seldom used now except to mean in prison. At Oxford, where it is spelt QUAD, the word has its original signification.
quodger
A contraction, or corruption rather, of the Latin law phrase, QUO JURE? by what law?—Legal.
quos ego
A threat of punishment for disobedience. The words, from Virgil's /Eneid (1,135), were uttered by Neptune to the disobedient and rebellious winds, and are sometimes given as an example of aposiopesis, i.e. a stopping short for rhetorical effort, "Whom I — ," said Neptune, the "will punish" being left to the imagination.
quota
Snack, share, part, proportion, or dividend. Tip me my quota; give me part of the winnings, booty, or plunder. CANT.
quote unquote
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
qwerty syndrome
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.