Meaning of lickpenny | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive.
   obsolete
2. A miserly person.

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.”

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

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