ha'penny
Americannoun
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ha'pennies
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noun
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I’m sure you’ve all missed ’em: The ha’penny, farthing and shilling.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
Lovers engraved their names on tokens, the tide carried them away; children tried to catch wriggling elvers, dropping a ha’penny as they slipped free.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2020
The Times predicts a close vote, saying the leader of the House of Laity, Dr Philip Giddings said he would not even bet "an old ha'penny" on the proposal for women bishops to be passed.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2014
Even the woman selling me my ticket for Friday's gig in Stockport had her ha'penny worth.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2012
If you haven’t a penny A ha’penny will do And if you haven’t a ha’penny God bless you.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
In a league that barely has two ha’pennies to rub together.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2016
It’s hardly surprising that this massive change in the reading audience was associated with shifts of subject matter that tended to replace gold sovereigns with ha’pennies.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2014
Photograph: Laurence CendrowiczCendrowicz This was the year a heartwarming about slimy, crying heads bursting through cockney women's ha'pennies became a mainstream hit.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2012
He carefully picked all the ha'pennies from the collection, marched to the church door, pitched them into the street.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Of course,” he said as he emptied his purse onto the table then fingered through the jumbled coins: heavy silver talents and thin silver bits, copper jots, broken ha’pennies, and iron drabs.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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