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Definition of Lickpenny

Lickpenny
Lickpenny Lick"pen`ny (-p[e^]n`n[y^]), n. A devourer or absorber of money. ``Law is a lickpenny.' --Sir W. Scott.

Meaning of Lickpenny from wikipedia

- began with poetry; his work in that field includes such works as London Lickpenny (1973) and The Diversions of Purley (1987). In 1982 he published The Great...
- Room", "After Twenty Years", A Muni****l Report, An Unfinished Story, A Lickpenny Lover, Mammon and the Archer and The Last Leaf. American examples include:...
- stories: "The Voice of the City", "The Complete Life of John Hopkins", "A Lickpenny Lover", "Dougherty's Eye-opener", "'Little Speck in Garnered Fruit'",...
- considered anonymous. Lydgate was also believed to have written London Lickpenny, a well-known satirical work; however, his authorship of this piece has...
- reprinted anonymous satirical poem of the early 15th century, "London Lickpenny" (sometimes attributed to John Lydgate), the protagonist, lost and bewildered...
- street sellers, retailers, tavern-keepers and others. A lyckpeny (or lickpenny) is an archaic term for anything that soaks up money. Lydgate's ballad...
- in Hoccleve's Male Regle. Compared to Lydgate and his humorous "London Lickpenny", these pictures of 15th-century London are more serious, as they ruminate...
- deeply stupid, griping, illiberal, avid, tenacious, pinchfist, a sordid lickpenny and a shrew". It is hard to see any likeness of the mother in the daughter...
- street sellers, retailers, tavern-keepers and others. A lyckpeny (or lickpenny) is an archaic term for anything that soaks up money. Lydgate's ballad...
- Firewheel Tree Dannie Abse, Funland, and Other Poems Peter Ackroyd, London Lickpenny Martin Booth, Coronis, including the long poem, "On the Death of Archdeacon...
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