flatch

Phonetic spelling of the backslang for half (with /tʃ/ substituted for the /h/).

• IPA^(key): /flætʃ/
• Rhymes: -ætʃ

flatch (not comparable)

1. (dated, costermongers) Half

• flatch-kennurd (“half drunk”), flatch-yenork (“half-crown”), flatch-yennep (“halfpenny”)

flatch (plural flatches)

1. (dated, costermongers) A halfpenny.
   • c. 1864, Stevens, Alfred Peck, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎, published 1896, page 161:

     I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on.

2. (dated, costermongers, crime) A counterfeit half-crown.

• (halfpenny): flatch-yennep, ha'penny