Quiddit

Quid´dit


n.1.A subtilty; an equivocation.
By some strange quiddit or some wrested clause.
- Drayton.
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I could, perhaps pedantically, add to de Grazia's store of wordplay connecting Hamlet to the land his line on "the skull of a lawyer": "where be his quiddits now, his quillets .
"Hamlet" without Hamlet
His other books are An Octave to Mary (1893), Lyrics (1897), Child Verse (1899), Later Lyrics (1902), The Rosary in Rhyme (1904), and Quips and Quiddits (1907).
Tabb, John Banister (1845-1909)

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