farthing dip

== English == === Noun === farthing dip (plural farthing dips) (archaic) A piece of bread dipped in hot fat and sold by pork butchers. (archaic) A candle. ==== Usage notes ==== Colloquial c. 1820–1880. ==== Translations ==== === References === Partridge, Eric (1973), The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang‎[1], London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 307 Hagar of the Pawn-Shop - Fergus Hume, p.3 Stevenson, Robert Louis - A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913. XXX. A Portrait