单词 | trizzie |
释义 | trizzien. Australian colloquial. Now historical. A coin worth three old pence, in use in Australia prior to decimalization in 1966; a threepenny piece. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > coin of 3d quarter-shilling1561 threepence1589 trip1600 threepenny piece1691 thrip1699 thrums1699 thruppence1895 trey-bit1898 trey1907 tray1910 trizzie1920 Joey1936 trey-point- 1920 Fremantle (W. Austral.) Herald 18 June The hat was taken round, and Wang collected a humble trizzy, a penny, and a few coins, age and denomination unknown. 1953 ‘Caddie’ Caddie 216 He was searching his pockets for the extra threepence he knew he didn't have. ‘Blimey, I'm sure I 'ad another trizzy somewhere.’ 2011 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Jan. (First ed.) 14 Linda recalls walking with her brother to the Grand Theatre in Sydney Rd, Coburg, each Saturday afternoon just after the war to ‘pay 3d (threepence—a tray, a trizzie) to get into the pictures.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1920 |
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