| 单词 | rap halfpenny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrap halfpenny attributive. Designating a counterfeit or debased coin of little value, as rap farthing, rap halfpenny. Also figurative and in extended use (cf. senses 1b, 1c). Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > false coin > [noun] > specific crockard1300 lushburg1346 pollarda1387 rosarya1387 eagle1577 Leonine1577 morgan1659 rap1724 mitre1749 Paduan1770 Bungtown copper or cent1787 rap halfpenny1787 stampee1795 Jack1851 1787 G. Bouverie Georgina III. xxi. 105 I don't value your disdain;—no, not a rap farthing. 1792 Lessons to Young Chancellor 44 If you had seen Lord L—d go into your coach, you'd have said, ‘damn the blockhead, he looks like a rap half-penny set in gold.’ 1797 J. Beete Man of Times ii. vi. 29 If I was as she, I would not care a rap halfpenny about him. 1864 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 392 It is not of very great moment to me that I am now and then imposed on by a ‘rap halfpenny’. 1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh (E.D.D.) 218 As fer t'stays, they warn't worth t'toss up of a rap-hopenny. 1916 Mod. Philol. 14 108 Rap-farthing, rap half-penny, counterfeit coin of bad metal. < as lemmas |
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