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In some senses, lickpenny is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
slender
LICKPENNY + NOUN
london, mr, tyrrel
PREP.
in
noun
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.
A miserly person.
The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!
adj
Expensive.
His pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, forced to beg, steal, or starve, and gaping after honest death.
For well London Lykke-peny for ones and eye, / For lake of money I may not spede.
Wiktionary[…] at Smyrna, you talked of a lawsuit—law is a lickpenny, Mr Tyrrel—no counsellor like the pound in purse.
WiktionaryThe Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!
WiktionaryHis pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, for
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In some senses, lickpenny is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.