Meanings
nounfipenny (plural fipennies)
plural fipennies · alternative fippenny
- historicalA fivepenny; a fivepenny bit.
On the Ash Wednesday, when we had holiday from school, I trotted into Town on my own and walked into the Old Bank and plonked down on the counter twenty-one Guernsey shillings in pennies and halfpennies and fippennies and francs.
1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 13 - slangA flick-knife.
Origin
Contraction of fivepenny.
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