twopenny
Americanadjective
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of the amount or value of twopence.
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costing twopence.
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of very little value; trifling; worthless.
adjective
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Also: twopenny-halfpenny. cheap or tawdry
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(intensifier)
a twopenny damn
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worth two pence
Etymology
Origin of twopenny
Example Sentences
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Our daughter picked her way through a mechanical funhouse, then fed twopenny coins into slot machines.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
In the most common Random House edition, it’s there, it’s final and it’s huge — an inky one-eighth of an inch in diameter, the head of a twopenny nail stabbed into the book.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2018
"London, all agape, crowds to the twopenny tube," the Daily Mail reported in the week of its opening.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2013
Penny papers, like the Daily Mail and Daily Express, which used to run from 16 to 20 pages, were months ago reduced to twelve, the great twopenny London Times to 16.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same result is apparent in the case of what, for distinction's sake, we will still call the London penny post, although the London penny post had become a twopenny and threepenny one.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
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