lickpenny

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive. obsolete
    — For well London Lykke-peny for ones and eye, / For lake of money I may not spede.
  2. A miserly person.
    — The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!
形容词 adj.
  1. Expensive. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

lickpennies plural more lickpenny comparative most lickpenny superlative

词汇关系

相关词
black hole money pit

词源

词源 1
From lick + penny.
词源 2
From lick + penny.
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