ha'penny

American

[hey-puh-nee, heyp-nee] / ˈheɪ pə ni, ˈheɪp ni /

noun

British.

plural

ha'pennies

contraction of halfpenny.

ha'penny British

/ ˈheɪpnɪ /

noun

a variant spelling of halfpenny

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"We didn't have two ha'pennies to rub together," Don remembers.

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“Your mother might want to put in her sixpence ha'penny, but...”

From Literature

In the 1920s each empty yielded a ha'penny, but by the 1980s it had risen to the princely sum of 10p.

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The tabletop travel game is a cross between bowls and shove ha'penny, where players aim to get their discs closest to the jack.

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He tells of the "ha'penny jars of toffees" and how the sisters would sometimes treat children to freebies if they didn't have any money.

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