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   quite a little
         n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or
               extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot
               of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the
               rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must
               have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of
               money" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great
               deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle},
               {mint}, {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile},
               {plenty}, {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew},
               {spate}, {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]

English Dictionary: quite a little by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quiddle \Quid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quiddled}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Quiddling}.] [L. quid what.]
      To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful
      subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
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