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farthing 音标拼音: [f'ɑrðɪŋ] n. 1/ 4便士,英国最小的钱币 1/ 4便士,英国最小的钱币 farthing n 1: a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a pennyFarthing \ Far" thing\, n. [ OE. furthing, AS. fe[' o] r[ eth] ung, fr. fe[' o] r[ eth] a fourth, fe[' o] r, fe[' o] wer, four. See { Four}.] 1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A very small quantity or value. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] In her cup was no farthing seen of grease. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A division of land. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Thirty acres make a farthing land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight' s fee. -- R. Carew. [ 1913 Webster] 141 Moby Thesaurus words for " farthing": a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, ace, atom, bagatelle, bauble, bawbee, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, crown, curio, dab, dole, dollar, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farce, feather, fig, fiver, fleabite, fleck, florin, flyspeck, folderol, fourpence, fourpenny, fourth, fourth part, fragment, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, guinea, hair, half crown, half dollar, halfpenny, handful, hill of beans, iota, jest, joke, jot, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, little, little bit, mag, meg, minikin, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, mockery, modicum, molecule, molehill, monkey, mote, new pence, np, nutshell, one- fourth, ounce, p, particle, pebble, pence, penny, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pittance, point, pony, pound, quart, quarter, quartern, quarto, quid, rap, red cent, row of pins, rush, scruple, shilling, shit, sixpence, smidgen, smitch, snap, sneeshing, sou, speck, spoonful, spot, straw, tenner, thimbleful, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tiny bit, tittle, toy, trifle, trifling amount, trinket, trivia, triviality, tuppence, twenty- five cents, twenty- five percent, two bits, two cents, twopence, whim- wham, whit
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