subs. (old).—Twopence. [From the Latin.]
1819. J. H. VAUX, A Vocabulary of the Flash Language, s.v.
1823. W. T. MONCRIEFF, Tom and Jerry, ii., 6. If any body offers you less nor a mag, or a DUCE, vy, you may say with the poet, Who vou’d his farthings bear? ven he himself might his quivetus make vith a bare bodkin.
