Lexicographical Neighbors of Fippence
Literary usage of Fippence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan (1915)
"out a sixpence; well in coorse, I hands over fippence f arden ... of fippence.
I always gives a farden more change, and takes according. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"But, after all, what was fippence to the aggregate of metropolitan rates, . . .
and for what other fippence of those rates was there as good a return in ..."
3. The Peasant Speech of Devon: With Other Matters Connected Therewith by Sarah Hewett (1892)
"fippence = fivepence. ' 'Ow much didee gie vur thease wan ? ... fippence a yard.
Cheap, wadden 'er ?' Fitch = polecat. ' 'E stink'th like a fitch. ..."
4. More Mornings at Bow Street: A New Collection of Humorous and Entertaining by John Wight (1827)
"No, I haven't," says I, " but I've four and fippence. ... honest Mike lent him
the ' four and fippence,' and the rogue left him in the lurch, by going in at ..."
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