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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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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