metelik

== Turkish == === Etymology === From Ottoman Turkish متالك (metalik, metelik), from French métallique. Cognate with English metallic. Doublet of metalik. === Noun === metelik (definite accusative metaliği, plural metelikler) (historical) a copper coin worth 10 paras 1931 January 1, Son Posta, caption below comic of a woman showing old junk to a man: ==== Usage notes ==== The word surived past the end of the coin it described in the phrase metelik etmez, not worth a dime, as in the quotation above. === References === Kélékian, Diran (1911), “متالك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1104 Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN