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lickpenny

noun

Etymology

From lick + penny.

  1. inherited from *panningaz✻
  2. inherited from *panning✻
  3. inherited from peniġ
  4. inherited from peny
  5. compounded as lickpenny — “lick + penny”

Definitions

  1. Something that devours or absorbs lots of money

    Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive.

    • For well London Lykke-peny for ones and eye, / For lake of money I may not spede.
    • […] at Smyrna, you talked of a lawsuit—law is a lickpenny, Mr Tyrrel—no counsellor like the pound in purse.

  2. A miserly person.

    • The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!

  3. Expensive.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA