quattie

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English

Etymology

From quarter +‎ -ie.^[1]

Noun

quattie (plural quatties)

(Jamaica) An old Jamaican coin worth three cents or one-and-a-half pence.

References

^ “quattie, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English quarter. A coin whose value was a quarter of a sixpence, i.e. 1½p.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkwatɪ/
Hyphenation: qua‧ttie

Noun

quattie (plural quattie dem, quantified quattie)

(historical) one-and-a-half pence.
(idiomatic) chicken feed, a paltry sum (a negligible amount)
Not a quattie worth sell. ― The money we got for what we sold was chicken feed.

Further reading

Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 460
quattie – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

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