saltee
See also: salteé
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editsaltee (plural saltees)
- (UK, obsolete, slang) A penny.
- 1862, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages, page 242:
- One day he would gather more than I in three; another, to hear his tale, it had rained kicks all day in lieu of “saltees,” and that is pennies.
Related terms
editReferences
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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editVerb
editsaltee
- inflection of saltear: