Definition of Fippence

1. fivepence [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fippence

fioratura
fioraturae
fiord
fiords
fiorin
fiorino
fiorinos
fiorins
fiorite
fioritura
fioriture
fip
fipennies
fipenny
fipexide
fippence (current term)
fippences
fippennies
fippenny
fippenny bit
fippenny bits
fipple
fipple flute
fipple pipe
fipples
fipronil
fips
fiqh
fique
fiques

Literary usage of Fippence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan (1915)
"out a sixpence; well in coorse, I hands over fippence f arden ... of fippence. I always gives a farden more change, and takes according. ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"But, after all, what was fippence to the aggregate of metropolitan rates, . . . and for what other fippence of those rates was there as good a return in ..."

3. The Peasant Speech of Devon: With Other Matters Connected Therewith by Sarah Hewett (1892)
"fippence = fivepence. ' 'Ow much didee gie vur thease wan ? ... fippence a yard. Cheap, wadden 'er ?' Fitch = polecat. ' 'E stink'th like a fitch. ..."

4. More Mornings at Bow Street: A New Collection of Humorous and Entertaining by John Wight (1827)
"No, I haven't," says I, " but I've four and fippence. ... honest Mike lent him the ' four and fippence,' and the rogue left him in the lurch, by going in at ..."

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