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Definition of Dodkin

1. n. A doit; a small coin.

Definition of Dodkin

1. doit [n -S] - See also: doit

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodkin

dodger dodgeries dodgers dodgery dodges Dodge City dodgier dodgiest dodginess dodginesses

dodging dodgings Dodgson dodgy dodine dodkin (current term) dodkins dodman dodman dodmans

dodo dodo dodoes dodoism dodoisms Dodonaea dodos dods doe doe

Literary usage of Dodkin

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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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