thrippence
Americannoun
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It is generally referred to as "thrippence" or "thrippenny bit" and in somewhat vulgar circles as a "tizzy."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sorry to disturb you, Guv'nor, but would you mind letting me have the thrippence for your share of the insurance stamp?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various
They, of course, don't care thrippence about me; it's you they hope to annoy.
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick
Yesterday mornin' I got thrippence by hingin' aboot the Royal afore the coches startit.
From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald
Dividin nineteen pound, seven and six, by that, it makes me come to thrippence happenny a pound, 'cording to the laws o' Massachusetts, countin bones and waste.
From The Duke of Stockbridge by Edward Bellamy
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