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From: Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]>
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> "quib
> [obsolete headword]
> quib, sb. Obs. Also 6 -be, 7 -bbe. [App. ad. (orig. in pl.) L. quibus,
dat. or
> abl. pl. of qui `who, which', as a word of frequent occurrence in legal
> documents and hence associated with the `quirks and quillets' of
> the law. For other allusive uses of the L. word, cf. Fr. quibus money,
cash;
> Dutch kwibus fool, weathercock. ]
Hence a distant relative of 'quid' for pound sterling?
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