DCHP-3

butter-and-egg money

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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money obtained from the sale of butter and eggs, part or all of which by custom goes to the farmer's wife.

Quotations

1932
My little butter­-and-egg money and the revenue from my early chickens . . . withered in my hands as I timidly compared it with the price of the dishes. . . .