farthing dip

English

Noun

farthing dip (plural farthing dips)

1. (archaic) A piece of bread dipped in hot fat and sold by pork butchers.
2. (archaic) A candle.

Usage notes

Colloquial c. 1820–1880.

Translations

a candle

• Russian: маканая свеча́ m (makanaja svečá)

References

• 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