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tuppenny

[ tuhp-uh-nee ]

ˈtuppenny

/ ˈtʌpənɪ /

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of twopenny


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Example Sentences

There's been two thousand deserters already in this tuppenny-ha'penny war, and none on 'em the worse off.

And you carn't do the rooral to-rights on a tract and a tuppenny bun.

It was the tuppence that attracted her; she had never bought a spell, and even a tuppenny one would be something new.

Ever since the day when the tuppenny spell did its work Harry has been kinder than before and Lucy braver.

Outside it looks like a fifty-guinea hunting watch, open it and you find it's tuppenny-halfpenny gun-metal.

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