Crossword-Solution: LICKPENNY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lickpenny | n. | A devourer or absorber of money. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with LICKPENNY (5)
LYDGATE’S LONDON LICKPENNY 81–84 LYDGATE’S BICORN AND CHICHEVACHE 85–89 DUNBAR’S BEST TO BE BLYTH 91, 92 DRAYTON’S DOWSABELL 93–96 DRAYTON’S NYMPHIDIA 97–116 POPE’S RAPE OF THE LOCK 117–137 COWPER’S JOHN GILPIN 139–146 BURNS’S TAM O’SHANTER 147–153 HOOD’S DEMON SHIP 155–158 HOOD’S TALE OF A TRUMPET 159–180 NOTE.—THE GAME OF OMBRE 181–187 GLOSSARY 188–192 INTRODUCTION.
Other literature read included "London Lickpenny", a satire on London and its expensive services and products, "Fall of Princes" by John Lydgate, social history by Thomas Hoccleve, "The Cuckoo and the Nightengale", and "The Flower and Leaf" on morality as secular common sense.
Our Lickpenny now passed through Eastcheap, which Shakespeare later on associates with a rich supply of sack and fat capons, and there he found ribs of beef, pies, and pewter pots, intermingled with harping, piping, and the old street carols of Julian and Jenkin.
Bewildered and oppressed, Master Lickpenny was delighted to pay the heavy charge, and to make his escape from the din and confusion of the great city, resolving never again to enter its portals or to have anything to do with London litigation.
Among the 114 works attributed to him, it is only natural that some variety should be shown, and occasionally, as in the _London Lickpenny_, a skit on contemporary life in the City, he shows some trace of humour.