lickpenny
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Is lickpenny a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of lickpenny?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive.Examples: "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."obsolete
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Expensive.Examples: "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."Synonyms: expensiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary