| 释义 |
fip U.S.|fɪp|
[short for fipenny bit.]
(See quot. 1860 and next.)
1822Philad. Freeman's Jrnl. 5 Sept. (Th.), A dispute now commenced between two persons respecting some cents and a ‘fip’..: one asserting that there were two ‘fips’, and the other that there was but one. 1833in Indiana Mag. Hist. (1919) XV. 244 He would not let us pass through the fense without a ‘fip’, that is 4½ cents. 1837–47[see levy n.2]. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Fippenny Bit, or contracted, Fip, fivepence. In Pennsylvania, and several of the Southern States, the vulgar name for the Spanish half-real. 1876T. Hill True Order Studies (1878) 49 The..fips and eleven-penny bits of fifty years ago.
Hence ˈfipsworth, as much as may be bought or sold for a ‘fip’.
1844Maury Let. to A. Maury 23 June, in Corbin Life (1888) 48 If nonsense will sell at all, I am sure you have here three fipsworth of it. |