| 单词 | without a rap |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswithout a rap b. Used as the type of a coin of the least possible value. Chiefly in negative contexts, as without a rap, not a rap, etc. Now rare.With quot. 1778 cf. not to give a rap at sense 1c, not to give a toss at toss n.1 6d. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum > coin as type of pennya1225 sumc1300 mitea1375 minutec1384 groat1513 souse1570 widow's mite1572 stivera1640 brass farthing1642 shilling1737 rap1778 skilligalee1834 skillick1835 steever1892 razoo1919 1778 H. Brooke Contending Brothers v. iv. 194 The divil himself vwoudn't give dthe toss of a rap fwor all her ugley carkige; and yet her vword will pass, do you see me, fwor twenty thousand a year. c1805 G. Colman in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1973) III. 88 Damn him..who would cheat a poor girl..for the value of a rap! 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI lxxxiv. 145 I have seen the landholders without a rap. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. xv. 227 ‘You must fork out.’ ‘Not a rap.’ 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel II. iv. 93 A man who dies and leaves not a rap behind him. 1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland xiii. 310 He hasn't a rap in his pocket. < as lemmas |
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