lickpenny

Etymology

From lick + penny.

lickpenny means expensive. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

adj

Expensive.“His pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, forced to beg, steal, or starve, and gaping after honest death.”

noun

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.”
A miserly person.“The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!”