Definición

• An English dialect term meaning a coin of very small value. It is common to a number of counties and is variously written, e.g., Scuddick, Scuddock, Scuttick, Skiddick, Scurrick, etc.

  Grose, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1823, has: "Scurrick, a half-penny. "

  Elworthy, The West Somerset Word-Book, 1886, quotes: "I an't a-got nothing, not a scriddick about me. "

  Cope, A Glossary of Hampshire Words, 1883, has "not worth a scuddick: " and Long, in Dictionary of Tin Isle of Wight Dialect, 1886, cites, "I can't lend ee tuppence, vor I hain't got a scuddick about me. "

Fuente

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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