fipenny
English
Alternative forms
- fippenny
Etymology
Contraction of fivepenny.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɪpəni/
Noun
fipenny (plural fipennies)
- (now historical) A fivepenny; a fivepenny bit.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 13:
- On the Ash Wednesday, when we had holiday from school, I trotted into Town on my own and walked into the Old Bank and plonked down on the counter twenty-one Guernsey shillings in pennies and halfpennies and fippennies and francs.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 13:
- (slang) A flick-knife.