| 单词 | penny-fee |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny-fee penny-fee n. Scottish and English regional (northern) (now rare) (originally) †a payment of a penny (obsolete); (later) wages paid in cash, earnings. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > paid in money penny-fee1786 1786 R. Burns Cotter's Sat. Night iv, in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 146 To..deposite her sair-won penny-fee. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 323 My riches a's my penny-fee. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 164 For the penny-fee and a' that, I'll just leave it to the laird and you. a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xviii. 1 The others she had purchased with her own penny-fee. 1925 R. L. Cassie Gangrel Muse 16 Sic gowden days for young an' aul' 'At win their penny-fee. < as lemmas |
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