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English
Etymology
From Italian soldo.
Noun
saltee (plural saltees)
- (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.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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Verb
saltee
- inflection of saltear:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative