saltee

See also: salteé

English

Etymology

From Italian soldo.

Noun

saltee (plural saltees)

  1. (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.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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Verb

saltee

  1. inflection of saltear:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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