Farthing vs Dollar - What's the difference?
farthing | dollar |
(historical) Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny.
*1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
*:"Nay, Heaven forbid, indeed," quoth Robin, "that I should take from such as thee, jolly fellow! Not so much as one farthing would I take from thee, for I love a fair Saxon face like thine right well—more especially when it cometh from Locksley Town, and most especially when the man that owneth it is to marry a bonny lass on Thursday next. But come, tell me for what price thou wilt sell me all of thy meat and thy horse and cart."
*1895 , Parliament of Western Australia, Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly VIII,
*:We must keep them to the fact that the duty is one and three quarter farthings , or nearly a half-penny in the pound and no more, and any one who tries to work it out any other way is not acting fairly in the matter.
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing , nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is .
(by extension) Money generally.
* Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
Colloquially in the United Kingdom, a quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
* 1990 October 28, (Paul Simon), “Born at the Right Time”, (The Rhythm of the Saints) , Warner Bros.
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(attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
* 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London;
* 1956 The Spectator Vol.197 p.342:
As nouns the difference between farthing and dollar
is that farthing is (historical) former british unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny while dollar is dollar.farthing
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(en noun)- Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar , magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
- We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
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Hansard vol 504 col 271, 22 July 1952:
- The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
- For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others : dollar' films and ' dollar tobacco.
