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thick-un

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From thick + un (“one”, dialectal).

noun thick-uns

  1. UK, historical, obsolete, slang A crown coin; its value, five shillings. Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
  2. UK, historical, obsolete, slang A sovereign coin.

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@misc{thick_un_2026,
  title = {thick-un},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thick-un},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}