British slang, now obsolete, for a penny -- specifically one of the old pre-decimal pennies. The word was used in street slang and thieves' cant, particularly associated with market traders and itinerant sellers in Victorian London. It survives in historical accounts of urban low life and old glossaries of English cant vocabulary. Fell out of use as the pre-decimal currency disappeared.
He wouldn't give a saltee for the whole lot, called it garbage and walked on.
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(UK, obsolete, slang) A penny.
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