farthings
Smallest British coins
Farthings is the plural of farthing, a former British coin worth one quarter of a penny.
The farthing was the smallest denomination in British currency until it was withdrawn in 1961.
The word now appears mainly in historical contexts or expressions emphasizing tiny amounts: I don't care a farthing what he thinks.
Fraction of a cent
- pennyOne-cent piece
- shillingFormer British monetary unit
- penceBritish currency units
- groatHistorical English fourpenny piece
sixpence · tuppence · coin · copper · ha'penny · crown · sovereign · guinea
Of a prim era
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
- poorhouseShelter for the destitute
- workhouseInstitution housing poor laborers
- urchinNeglected street child
chimney sweep · lamplighter · cobblestones · gas lamp · almshouse · debtors · indigent · pauper
Lacking any value
- trifleInsignificant matter or thing
- pittanceInsultingly small payment
- nothingNot any thing
- insignificantLacking importance or consequence
Literary family name
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
- BronteVictorian literary surname
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
- archaicBelonging to earlier times
antiquated · period · costume drama · Scrooge · Oliver Twist · counting house · miser · ledger
halfpenny
Fraction of a cent
groat · sixpence · tuppence · coin · copper · ha'penny · crown · sovereign · guinea · florin
Victorian
Of a prim era
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
- poorhouseShelter for the destitute
- workhouseInstitution housing poor laborers
urchin · chimney sweep · lamplighter · cobblestones · gas lamp · almshouse · debtors · indigent · pauper · meager
worthless
Lacking any value
insignificant · valueless · matter · whit · jot · iota · fig · hoot · damn · two cents
Austen
Literary family name
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
- BronteVictorian literary surname
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
archaic · antiquated · period · costume drama · Scrooge · Oliver Twist · counting house · miser · ledger · inheritance
- copper coinspennies, cents, pence, halfpennies, centavos
- historic coinspenny, pennies, shilling, shillings, guinea
- numismaticscoin collecting, coin, coinage, coin collections, rare coins
- medieval tokens
- old moneyold money, blue blood, trust fund, private wealth, endowment
farthingspounds
Mass measurement units
crowns · sovereigns · guineas · gold coins · banknotes
- penny farthingOversized-front-wheel bicycle
- brass farthingSmallest former British coin