10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIPPENCE»
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fippence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fippence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1 564: Mullein , Dialogue, 62 (E.E.T.S.), Out of the countree ... as fine as lippence!
c. 1600: Gnm the Collser, II, As a man would say, finer than fivepence, or more
proud than a peacock. 1685: S. Wesley, Maggots, 109, All finer than fippence, ...
George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser, Stephen J. Curtis, 2005
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Dictionary of Jamaican English
FINEY FIPPENCE FINEY /faini/ sb dial; <fine adj + -.y. A type of breadfruit. 195*
FGC StAnn, Finey, a floury white kind of breadfruit. FINGAHLTTE see finger-light.
FINGER sb; cf OED 8 1702—, in more general sense. 1. A single banana or ...
Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page, 2002
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
l\'OBSEN Norsl' in S/n'll. (1897) 108.] FIORIN-GRASS, sb. Irel. The marsh bent-
grass, A Eros/1's slulomfrm or albn. 'he famous fiorin grass of Dr. Richardson and
the Irish agriculturists. PATRICK Plants (1831 1 64 (B. .2 1L). FIPPENCE, sb. pl.
4
At the track: a treasury of horse racing stories
'It seemed that the two of them had arranged for Slippery Fippence to win a
certain race, but Slippery Fippence, unknown to his brother, had been getting on
more and more intimate terms with a local bookie called Gentleman Jimmy
Malone.
5
The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
"We ain't had free, you cheating little wagabond!" screams the lady; "we've only
had two — you know that!" "Oh! beg pardon, ma'am," replies the boy, after a sly
lick ; " it was t'other box where the gen'l'm'n was as had three. Fippence, then ...
Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith, 1841
6
The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of ...
I never attended a meeting, though asked by George William Gordon, of the
parish of St. Thomas-in-the-East, member of assembly. He twice asked me, but I
would not agree to throw up quatties and fippence as much as your hand can
reach.
William S. Hein & Company, 1867
Not without big expense, faith ; indeed, I had to put my hand in my pocket and
land her out my ten shillings and fippence. ELLEN. Ten and fippence to a
milkwoman ! Isn't she the ferocious b100dsucker! Howbe, the money isn't
squandered if ...
8
More Mornings at Bow Street: A New Collection of Humorous ...
says I. "Oh, never mind," says he, " if there's little to-day there'll be plenty to-
morrow," says he :' and, to cut short a long story, honest Mike lent him the ' four
and fippence,' and the rogue left him in the lurch, by going in at one entrance of
the ...
369 hands over fippence f'arden astead of fippence. I always gives a farden more
change, and takes according. Member (in utter surprise, lets his oranges tumble
into the gutter). Nevermind! They won't be wanted now. ( Walks off one way.
Augustus De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan, 1872
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Jamaican sayings: with notes on folklore, aesthetics, and ...
Bit ole, i' tun fippence. When bit (coin worth four and a half pennies) gets old, it
becomes fippence (coin worth three pennies). Note: Both coins are now obsolete
in Jamaica. This implies that when one is old he/she loses status and becomes ...
G. Llewellyn Watson, 1991
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIPPENCE»
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Denis: Right as ninepence and other phrases
... but The Phrase Finder has found the first reference in a book of English proverbs from 1659: “as fine as fippence, as neat as nine pence.”. «Huddersfield Examiner, Sep 11»
