dacha-saltee

English

Etymology

Compare Italian dieci soldi.

Noun

dacha-saltee

  1. (thieves' cant, obsolete) Tenpence.
    • 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth
      […] and what with my crippledom and thy piety, a-wheeling of thy poor old dad, we'll bleed the bumpkins of a dacha-saltee.

References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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