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PRONUNCIATION OF LICKPENNY

lickpenny  [ˈlɪkˌpɛnɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LICKPENNY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lickpenny is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LICKPENNY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lickpenny in the English dictionary

The definition of lickpenny in the dictionary is something that uses up large amounts of money.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LICKPENNY


any
ˈɛnɪ
Asantehene
æˈʃæntɪˌhɛnɪ
benne
ˈbɛnɪ
benny
ˈbɛnɪ
catchpenny
ˈkætʃˌpɛnɪ
Henie
ˈhɛnɪ
henny
ˈhɛnɪ
jenny
ˈdʒɛnɪ
Kenny
ˈkɛnɪ
Kilkenny
kɪlˈkɛnɪ
luckpenny
ˈlʌkˌpɛnɪ
many
ˈmɛnɪ
penne
ˈpɛnɪ
Penney
ˈpɛnɪ
penni
ˈpɛnɪ
penny
ˈpɛnɪ
pinchpenny
ˈpɪntʃˌpɛnɪ
Rennie
ˈrɛnɪ
scrapepenny
ˈskreɪpˌpɛnɪ
truepenny
ˈtruːˌpɛnɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LICKPENNY

licitly
licitness
lick
lick into shape
lick one´s chops
lick one´s lips
lick one´s wounds
lick the boots of
lick-alike
licker
lickerish
lickerishly
lickerishness
lickety-split
licking
lickspit
lickspittle
licorice
lictor
lictorian

WORDS THAT END LIKE LICKPENNY

a bad penny
a pretty penny
eightpenny
fivepenny
fourpenny
genny
halfpenny
ha´penny
new penny
sevenpenny
sixpenny
spend a penny
tenpenny
threepenny
thrupenny
tuppenny
tuppenny-ha´penny
twalpenny
two a penny
twopenny
twopenny-halfpenny

Synonyms and antonyms of lickpenny in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lickpenny» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LICKPENNY

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The translations of lickpenny from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lickpenny» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

lickpenny
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lickpenny
570 millions of speakers

English

lickpenny
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

lickpenny
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

lickpenny
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

lickpenny
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lickpenny
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

lickpenny
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lickpenny
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lickpenny
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

lickpenny
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

lickpenny
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

lickpenny
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lickpenny
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

lickpenny
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

lickpenny
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लिक्स पेन्नी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lickpenny
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lickpenny
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lickpenny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

lickpenny
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lickpenny
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

lickpenny
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lickpenny
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

lickpenny
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lickpenny
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lickpenny

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LICKPENNY»

The term «lickpenny» is barely ever used and occupies the 197.133 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LICKPENNY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lickpenny» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lickpenny» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lickpenny

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LICKPENNY»

Discover the use of lickpenny in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lickpenny and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
They are deeply attached to one another; but since her mother, a widow with considerable property under her own control, is a deeply stupid, griping, illiberal, avid, tenacious, pinchfist lickpenny, a sordid lickpenny and a shrew, there is no ...
Patrick O'Brian, 2011
2
Viminy Crowe's Comic Book
Professor Lickpenny jumped up and downon the roofof the moving train, waving his arms with the controller held high. Addy's captorkept swooping in lazy circles, ignoringits master. Snap's crushed and brokenbody layunder the gleaming ...
Marthe Jocelyn, Richard Scrimger, 2014
3
A Handbook of Middle English Studies
In order to portray a diverse and unwieldy city, the Lickpenny poet (like the composers of Erkenwald and Stores) exploits literary form to structure a potentially chaotic endeavor. That is, Lickpenny's poet transmits a narrative in stanzas with a ...
Marion Turner, 2013
4
Merry England
On the other hand, Major Lick-penny, uncle and guardian to his Catholic nephew Roland, will be allowed to be a specimen, and the officers of Roland's regiment are, unfortunately, specimens also. The venerable Major Lickpenny, awakened, ...
‎1886
5
The New Monthly Magazine
Pity yon lost it," said Lickpenny thoughtfully. " Well," said Quiddy, " there's no use in tantalizing you by telling you of these good chances, seeing as how you have sunk all your money in an annuity." "Now suppose," said the other, cautiously, ...
‎1841
6
New Monthly Magazine
Pity you lost it," said Lickpenny thoughtfully. "Well," said Quiddy, " there's no use in tantalizing you by telling you of these good chances, seeing as how you have sunk all your money in an annuity." " Now suppose," said the other, cautiously, ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, 1841
7
An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing: Value, Consent, and ...
The Closed Community: London Lickpenny If a glance into the London city records about craft guilds shows their inability to agree on any notion of community that does not exclude at least some buyers or some sellers, it also presents a ...
Lianna Farber, 2006
8
Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
Pity you lost it,” said Lickpenny thoughtfully. “ Well," said Quiddy, “ there's no use in tantalizing you by telling you of these good chances, seeing as how you have sunk all your money in an annuity." “Now suppose,' said the other, cautiously, ...
‎1841
9
Phineas Quiddy; or, sheer industry
Could he have been influenced by Lickpenny's occasional allusions to his misfortune of “having neither chick nor child ;” or, by the circumstance that Lickpenny himself was (to use Quiddy's expression) “ an unnatural son ;” so that, should he ...
John POOLE (Dramatist.), 1859
10
The Manor, the Plowman, and the Shepherd: Agrarian Themes ...
If one could juxtapose time settings for different works of the late medieval period, one might envision the fourteenth-century Waster and his followers spoiling the city for the fifteenth-century London Lickpenny. Lickpenny may not be a manorial  ...
Ordelle G. Hill, 1993

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LICKPENNY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lickpenny is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Derbyshire travel update
Between Lickpenny Lane Tansley and Dewy Lane Milltown A615 Derbyshire - Temporary traffic lights on A615 Nottingham Road in Tansley ... «Ilkeston Today, Jun 15»
2
Location, location, location
The influence of his home city can again be seen in his first collection and novel, 'London Lickpenny' and 'The Great Fire of London'. This theme continued as ... «Newstalk 106-108 fm, Jun 15»
3
For Kids: Action heroes with a difference
They encounter grave danger in the form of a dastardly criminal, Professor Lickpenny, who, with the help of grotesque eight-foot robots he ... «Montreal Gazette, Jun 14»
4
London's Street Food: A Short History
In the 15th Century poem 'London Lickpenny', an unsuspecting Kentish man describes the incessant sales patter of London's vendors. «Londonist, Oct 12»
5
London: A History in Verse, Edited by Mark Ford
... off and heartbroken new citizens from the 15th-century Kentish farmer of "London Lickpenny" to James Berry's off-the-boat Jamaican in 1948, ... «The Independent, Jul 12»

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