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lickpennies

lickpennies is the plural of lickpenny.

Meaning of lickpenny

Noun

lickpenny (plural lickpennies)

  1. (obsolete) Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive.
    • For well London Lykke-peny for ones and eye, / For lake of money I may not spede.15th century, anonymous author, London Lickpenny
  2. A miserly person.
    • The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!2014, Gavin Wood, The Fate of the Jacobite Grenadiers

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Questions about lickpennies

What is lickpennies the plural of?
Lickpennies is the plural of lickpenny.

Words near lickpennies in the dictionary

  1. lickometer
  2. lickometered
  3. lickometers
  4. Lickorish
  5. Lickorish-Wallace theorem
  6. lickpennies
  7. lickpenny
  8. lickport
  9. lickports
  10. lickpot
  11. lickpots

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