lickpenny
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lickpenny
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From lick + penny.
noun lickpennies
- 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.
- A miserly person. The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!
adjective more lickpenny · most lickpenny
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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.
Similar: expensive
Talk about this word "lickpenny." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lickpenny. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. lickpenny. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lickpenny "lickpenny." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lickpenny.Cite this
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