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語源

Contraction of fivepenny.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪpəni/

名詞

fipenny ‎(複数形 fipennies)

1. (now historical) A fivepenny; a fivepenny bit.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 13:

     On the Ash Wednesday, when we had holiday from school, I trotted into Town on my own and walked into the Old Bank and plonked down on the counter twenty-one Guernsey shillings in pennies and halfpennies and fippennies and francs.

2. (slang) A flick-knife.