saltee

See also: salteé

English

Etymology

Italian soldo

Noun

saltee (plural saltees)

1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A penny.
   • 1862, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages, page 242:

     One day he would gather more than I in three; another, to hear his tale, it had rained kicks all day in lieu of “saltees,” and that is pennies.

Related terms

• dacha-saltee

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• elates, slatee, steale, stelae, stelæ, teasel, teasle

Spanish

Verb

saltee

1. inflection of saltear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative