| 释义 |
quattie W. Indies.|ˈkwɒtɪ|
[Corruption of quarter n.]
A penny halfpenny; money or a coin of the value of 1½d (0.625p).
1859Trollope West Indies & Spanish Main ii. 20 ‘And now de two quatties,’ he said. I knew nothing of quatties then, but I gave him the sixpence. 1873C. J. G. Rampini Lett. from Jamaica ix. 94 ‘Quattie’, a penny-half-penny—the ‘quarter’ of sixpence. 1893R. Bithell Counting-House Dict. (rev. ed.) 254 Quattie, a small silver coin used in the West Indies, worth about 1½d. English. 1961F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk ix. 209 The tup, of course, is an abbreviation of twopence, but nowadays means the same as quattie: 1½d. 1971Jamaican Weekly Gleaner 3 Nov. 25/2 Pound' wort' a fret nebber pay quattie wort' a debt. 1975New Yorker 12 May 37/1 He put every penny, every quattie of what we had into a small herd and a prize black bull. |