lickpenny

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim A miserly person.

   “The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!”

3. sıfat 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.”