There are very schelm Boers in these mountains, and whoever tried to stir up that affair his life would not be worth a tickey.

That the value given for the humble "tickey" was good the success of the scheme proved beyond contention.

A threepenny piece is there called "a tickey," and till the troops arrived that was the lowest coin in use.

The customary unit of expenditure is the threepenny-bit or “tickey.”