Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Two pennies regarded as a monetary unit.
- noun A British coin worth two pennies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Great Britain, the sum or value of two pennies, or one sixth of a shilling.
- noun An English silver coin, also called a half-groat, of the value of two pence (4 United States cents).
- noun An English copper coin of the reign of George III., of the value of two pence, issued in 1797.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A
bronze British coin worthtwo pennies - noun UK A
cost orvalue of two pennies - noun UK (by extension) A small
amount or value
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies
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Examples
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I would have a halfpenny worth or a pennyworth — you may guess my surprize — but twopence is all I can have — many a worthier person wants that — why then should
Letter 40 1793
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Dr. Johnson's statue can be seen any day for twopence, which is tenpence less than Madame Tassaud charges for admission to her wax effigies, and must therefore be considered cheap.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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"A water-carrier brings us up every morning a skin bag of water (it is made of skins sewn together, with a small outlet at the top); for it we pay twopence, which is equal to more than a shilling in London.
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager
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Relieve for twopence only may be had'Reachd my lodging at night well pleas'd. —
Letter 106 2009
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
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The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the scenes, the painting and cutting out of the caste, penny plain twopence coloured, the stink and glory of the performance and the final conflagration.
Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the scenes, the painting and cutting out of the caste, penny plain twopence coloured, the stink and glory of the performance and the final conflagration.
H G Wells, The New Machiavelli (1911) Adam Roberts 2010
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It's never too late to add your twopence to the moan-fest Melba.
the post in which I whine about the weather Another Outspoken Female 2008
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That afternoon, when we left the shop, Ben took me to a nearby place, the used-clothing shop where his friend worked for his father, and we bought an old nightgown for twopence.
The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010
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No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower-selling child who asked me for twopence for a daisy.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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