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saltee

saltee noun: a penny.

Noun

saltee (plural saltees)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A penny.
    • One day he would gather more than I in three; another, to hear his tale, it had rained kicks all day in lieu of “saltees,” and that is pennies.1862, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages, page 242

Forms of saltee

pluralsaltees

Origin of saltee

From Italian soldo.

Questions about saltee

What does saltee mean?
Saltee means a penny.
What part of speech is saltee?
Saltee is a noun.
What is the plural of saltee?
The plural of saltee is saltees.

Words near saltee in the dictionary

  1. salted eggs
  2. salted out
  3. salted the earth
  4. salted the mine
  5. salted up
  6. saltee
  7. saltees
  8. salten
  9. saltened
  10. saltening
  11. saltens

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