shilling

IPA: ʃˈɪɫɪŋ

(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.

Examples of "shilling" in Sentences

This "shilling" is further damaging the Clinton legacy.
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."