A British informal contraction of 'fivepence' — the sum of five pennies. The clipped form follows a general pattern of colloquial British money talk (cf. 'tuppence' for twopence, 'tenpence'). Largely obsolete since decimalisation, but still encountered in older literature and occasionally in regional speech.
He wouldn't give you fippence for the whole lot, tight as he was.
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(British, informal, dated) fivepence.
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