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saltees

saltees is the plural of saltee.

Meaning of saltee

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

Questions about saltees

What is saltees the plural of?
Saltees is the plural of saltee.

Words near saltees in the dictionary

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

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