thruppence
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Families were charged sixpence a week for adults and thruppence for children.
From BBC
He's returning to the scene of childhood holidays, where he probably paid a tinker's son thruppence to carry his rod and act as a footstool during those idyllic days fishing off the harbour wall.
From The Guardian
And I wouldn't have had a mother; she almost certainly would have died giving birth to me, because the person delivering me was actually a chimney sweep, and just did a bit of midwifery on the side, for an extra thruppence a month.
From The Guardian
"Not till 'ee pays me thruppence for that there milk."
From Project Gutenberg
I gev ye seventeen and thruppence.
From Project Gutenberg
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