dacha-saltee
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (thieves' cant, obsolete) Tenpence.
- 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co.:
- […] and what with my crippledom and thy piety, a-wheeling of thy poor old dad, we'll bleed the bumpkins of a dacha-saltee.
References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary