Definitions
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- adjective of trifling worth
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Examples
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We all have baggage in our pasts to deal with and it'd be great to be able to deal with them on our own - esp if our partners are either (a) unaware or (b) don't give two-tuppeny-bits about them.
In Confidence... juliette 2009
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Does it matter a tuppeny damn that it was white Englishman, William Wilberforce who managed to outlaw slavery in England and its colonies only that it was stopped.
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Does it matter a tuppeny damn that it was white Englishman, William Wilberforce who managed to outlaw slavery in England and its colonies only that it was stopped.
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Does it matter a tuppeny damn that it was white Englishman, William Wilberforce who managed to outlaw slavery in England and its colonies only that it was stopped.
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Take her out of poor tuppeny luck before she goes off in pure treple licquidance.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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I leave that stuff to smart people, and throw my tuppeny worth in where it doesn't seem horribly inappropriate.
Oppressed by the label "Republican"? Ann Althouse 2006
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And all of this, please note, for a tuppeny-ha'penny article, in a magazine with a circulation of 6000.
Libel lunacy Michael Allen 2004
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And all of this, please note, for a tuppeny-ha'penny article, in a magazine with a circulation of 6000.
Archive 2004-04-01 Michael Allen 2004
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And all of this, please note, for a tuppeny-ha'penny article, in a magazine with a circulation of 6000.
April 2004 Michael Allen 2004
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"That there's a doctor, not 'un'a yer tuppeny whoors!"
The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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