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Quill-driver (common), a writer. (Turf), a bookmaker. The annual cricket match between the Press and the Jockeys will be played to- day on the Queen's Club Ground, West Kensington, and my information is to the effect that the quill-drivers are likely to have the best of the willow-wielding and leather-flapping engagement with the knights of the pigskin. Sporting Times. Quiller (common), a parasite ; a person who sucks neatly through a quill, says Hotten. Quill, to (Winchester College), to curry... favour with, to flatter. Quilster (Winchester College), a flatterer. Vide To QUILL. Quilt, to (popular), to thrash. Much used by tailors. Probably originally a tailor's phrase. Quint (American cowboy), a whip (Spanish). Quisby (popular). Hotten defines this as bankrupt. According to a song "sung with terrific success by Miss Kate Con- stance " it appears to have a slightly different meaning : When tars have been away on a voyage o'er the sea, They're glad to get home again to have a jolly spree, But when they kiss and cuddle you and won't let you be, Don't it make you feel quisby in the morning ?
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