thick-un

English

Etymology

From thick + un (“one”, dialectal).

Pronunciation

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Noun

thick-un (plural thick-uns)

1. (UK, historical, obsolete, slang) A crown coin; its value, five shillings.
   • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:

     Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "That's a good yarn. Now you can't fool me. Tom, I'm not one o' those duds that pay you a thick 'un for an hour in the dark."

2. (UK, historical, obsolete, slang) A sovereign coin.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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