thick-un
thick-un noun: a crown coin; its value, five shillings.
Noun
thick-un (plural thick-uns)
- A crown coin; its value, five shillings.
- Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
- "That's a good yarn. Now you can't fool me. Tom, I'm not one o' those duds that pay you a thick 'un for an hour in the dark."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
- A sovereign coin.
Forms of thick-un
| plural | thick-uns |
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Origin of thick-un
From thick + un (“one”, dialectal).
Questions about thick-un
- What does thick-un mean?
- Thick-un means a crown coin; its value, five shillings.
- What part of speech is thick-un?
- Thick-un is a noun.
- What is the plural of thick-un?
- The plural of thick-un is thick-uns.
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