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lickpenny
noun 2adj 1
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3ADJ.
slender
LICKPENNY + NOUN
london, mr, tyrrel
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in
Definitions
noun
1
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!
adj
1
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.
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For well London Lykke-peny for ones and eye, / For lake of money I may not spede.
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[…] at Smyrna, you talked of a lawsuit—law is a lickpenny, Mr Tyrrel—no counsellor like the pound in purse.
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The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!
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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, for
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