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Definition of Dodkin
1. n. A doit; a small coin.
Definition of Dodkin
1. Noun. A doit; a small coin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dodkin
1. doit [n -S] - See also: doit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodkin
Literary usage of Dodkin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"Snipsnap, the tailor, says, in the " Faithful Friends," " And if my trade then
prove not worth a dodkin, Curse, curso o' women, both my yard and ..."
2. History from Marble by Thomas Dingley, Vincent Brooks (1867)
"156 30 dodkin, sb. hilum, 133 27 dodkin, not a, ... 133 29 " A dodkin, of small
value, a thing of naught. ..."
3. Manipulus Vocabulorum: A Dictionary of English and Latin Words, Arranged in by Peter Levens, Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1867)
"156 30 dodkin, sb. hilum, 133 27 dodkin, not a, ... 133 29 " A dodkin, of small
value, a thing of naught. ..."
4. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"Saint Austin compareth heretics unto them.—Nash, UT, J. 4 l. Barclay, Eel., iii., calls
them punaises. dodkin, s. A small coin, dim. of Doit. ..."
5. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"28. dodkin : a Dutch coin worth one-eighth of a stiver (Fairholt I. Halliwell quotes
Weelkes' Ayres, Lon. 1608 ' The stiching cost me but a ..."
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