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English
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Noun
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farthing
dip
(
plural
farthing dips
)
(
archaic
)
A piece of bread dipped in hot
fat
and sold by pork
butchers
.
(
archaic
)
A
candle
.
Usage notes
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Colloquial c. 1820–1880.
Translations
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a candle
Russian:
маканая свеча́
m
(
makanaja svečá
)
References
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Partridge, Eric (
1973
)
The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
[1]
, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
→ISBN
, page
307
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop - Fergus Hume, p.3
Stevenson, Robert Louis - A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913. XXX. A Portrait
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