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English
Etymology
pick + penny
Noun
pickpenny (plural pickpennies)
- A miser.
- A sharper
1664, Dr. Henry More, A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, book 2, chapter 9, section 8, page 143:[…] and therefore lie wholly at the mercy of him whom the greatness of his Title and Pontifical Pomp, exceeding so infinitely his just Revenues, must make a severe exacter of Tribute from them that are most appropriately under his power, and thereby put them to unworthy shifts and sharkings upon the people by pious, or rather impious, Sleights and Frauds, he sending out and dispersing these Birds of his in numerous flocks, to be his hungry Pick-peny's throughout the whole Pastorage of the Empire.
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