shilling
IPA: ʃˈɪɫɪŋ
noun
- (historical) A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.
- The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
- (US, historical) A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
- (US, historical, New York and some other states) The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.
- A surname.
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Examples of "shilling" in Sentences
- It seems like a bit of shilling.
- Now you are shilling onWikipedia.
- It was a waste of a good shilling.
- It was priced ten and a half shilling.
- In 1877 a penny of shilling denomination.
- Either that, or you're shilling for Evony.
- A duty of a shilling was placed on advertisements.
- This "shilling" is further damaging the Clinton legacy.
- There was no 'shilling sign' and shilling was abbreviated as s.
- All they have to cover and spin their corporatist shilling is the Big Lie.
- The term 'shilling' comes from the Italian solidus, and penny from denarius.
- He says she's a liar who is more interested in shilling cruises and luxury car leases than anything else.
- A YOUNG spendthrift being apprised that he had given a shilling when sixpence would have been enough, remarked that "He knew no difference between a _shilling_ and _sixpence_."
- Crying and moaning about something carl cameron supposedly said while not making a phucking peep about what ed the shill schultzy said which was blatant shilling is called HYPOCRISY!
- Here is declared unto us that some laboured the whole day, which are hired for a penny, that is of our money ten pence: for like as we have a piece of money which we call a shilling, and is in value twelve pence, so the
- Those with a taste for alliteration could employ the term shilling shocker, as in the Illustrated London News of 17 September 1887: "The three-volume novel may be dying out, as they tell us; but we have the shilling shocker rampant among us."
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