dacha-saltee

English

Etymology

Compare Italian dieci soldi.

Noun

dacha-saltee

1. (thieves' cant, obsolete) Tenpence.
   • 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co.:

     […] and what with my crippledom and thy piety, a-wheeling of thy poor old dad, we'll bleed the bumpkins of a dacha-saltee.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary