lickpenny

noun

(obsolete) Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive. / A miserly person.

I found a lickpenny on the street.

意味（1）

(obsolete) Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive.

For well London Lykke-peny for ones and eye, / For lake of money I may not spede.

意味（2）

A miserly person.

The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!