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
With big fuses sputtering among Europe's political high explosives, China's War has recently looked like a chain of twopenny firecrackers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fancy, Jeff!" she exclaimed, her fingers in the leaves of some old twopenny notebook or other, "I can actually read my old shorthand yet!
From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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