farthing dip

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farthing dip

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English

Noun

farthing dip (plural farthing dips)

(archaic) A piece of bread dipped in hot fat and sold by pork butchers.
(archaic) A candle.

Usage notes

Colloquial c. 1820–1880.

Translations

a candle

Russian: маканая свеча́ m (makanaja svečá)

References

Partridge, Eric (1973) The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang‎^[1], London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 307
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop - Fergus Hume, p.3
Stevenson, Robert Louis - A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913. XXX. A Portrait

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