make n.1
(UK Und.) a halfpenny.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Hye way to the Spyttel House Eiii: Toure the patryng coue in the darkman cace / Docked the dell for a coper meke. | |
| Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 83: a make a halfpeny. | |
| Groundworke of Conny-catching n.p.: [as cit. c.1566]. | |
| Belman of London (3rd edn) A2: upr.: Why? Hast thou any lowre in thy bung to bowse? rog.: But a flag, a win, and a make. | |
| Martin Mark-all 5: Will you wapp for a wyn, or tranie for a make. | |
| Crabtree Lectures 189: Cove. Mort, what lower hast thou in thy Bung? Cove. I have a boord, two flagges, a Make, and one jon, and a rum stocke too. | |
| Canters Dict. Eng. Villainies (9th edn). | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Eng. Rogue I 50: Make, An half-penny. | |
| A Warning for House-Keepers 5: But if the cully naps us / and the Lurres from us take / O then they rub us to the Whitt / And it is hardly worth a Make. | |
| Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] A Make, an half-penny. | |
| Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Wap, Let her trine for a Make, ...let her hang for a Half-penny. | |
| Hell Upon Earth 5: Make, a Half-penny. | |
| Lives of Most Noted Highwaymen, etc. I 209: He taught his Pupil a deal of canting Words, telling him [...] Make, a Half-penny. | |
| Street Robberies Considered 33: Make, Halfpenny. | |
| Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 113: A Half-penny A Make. | |
| Scoundrel’s Dict. 17: A Half-penny – Make. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| ‘Larry’s Stiff’ Luke Caffrey’s Gost 7: If he hadn’t a make, his neck-cloth he’d pop for a facer. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Standard 13 Dec. n.p.: We do not find the word make (a halfpenny) used by boys in Ireland and extensively among the Irish labouring people settled in London [F&H]. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Morn. Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 18 July 2/6: A half-penny [...] may find the following; ‘bawbees,’ ‘browns,’ ‘camden town,’ ‘coppers,’ ‘ flatch,’ ‘gray,’ ‘madge.’ ‘make,’ ‘mag or maga,’ ‘posh,’ and ‘rap’. | |
| Ulysses 403: A make, mister. The Denzille lane boys. Hell, blast ye! | |
| (con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 216: Have you got your tram fare home? – No, said Johnny, I haven’t a make. | |
| Scarperer (1966) 68: It’s just a few makes I had, you know. | |
| Death of an Irish Town 21: A rager blone – four horses and two sprassies. Wide with the makes. Still. (In translation: ‘A country woman – four half crowns and two sixpences ... she’s careful with her money’). | |
| Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 64: We never found a make (ha’penny). |
In phrases
to pitch coppers at a stone, the winner came nearest.
| Spirit of Irish Wit 102: Edging de makes, at a motty, meant pitching halfpence at a particular stone, and he that pitched nearest was the winner. |