"lickpenny" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From lick + penny.",
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      "word": "money pit"
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          "ref": "15th century, anonymous author, London Lickpenny:",
          "text": "For well London Lykke-peny for ones and eye, / For lake of money I may not spede.",
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        {
          "ref": "1823, Sir Walter Scott, Saint Ronan's Well:",
          "text": "[…] at Smyrna, you talked of a lawsuit—law is a lickpenny, Mr Tyrrel—no counsellor like the pound in purse.",
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        "Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive."
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        "(obsolete) Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive."
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          "text": "The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!",
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        "A miserly person."
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          "text": "His pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, forced to beg, steal, or starve, and gaping after honest death.",
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        "(obsolete) Expensive."
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