twopenny

[ tuhp-uh-nee, too-pen-ee ]

/ ˈtʌp ə ni, ˈtuˌpɛn i /

adjective

of the amount or value of twopence.

costing twopence.

of very little value; trifling; worthless.

Nearby words

twofold purchase, twolegged, twonie, twoonie, twopence, twopenny, tworkov, twort, twosome, twp, twp.

Also tuppenny.

Origin of twopenny

First recorded in 1525–35; two + penny

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Examples from the Web for twopenny

What a pity it is that the University Press of to-day has become a trading concern, a shop for twopenny manuals and penny primers!
Oxford|Andrew Lang
He crossed himself at all the twopenny representations of the Divine agony.
The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851|Various
Twenty years before, the office in Gerrard Street, the headquarters of the twopenny post in Westminster, had been enlarged.
The History of the Post Office|Herbert Joyce
If I offer him a cigar, he smokes it as if it were a twopenny German thing.
The Forsyte Saga, Complete|John Galsworthy

The First Commissioner of Oaths states that "twopenny damns" will, until further notice, be eight-pence each.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 16, 1919|Various

British Dictionary definitions for twopenny

twopenny

tuppenny

/ (ˈtʌpənɪ) /

adjective mainly British

Also: twopenny-halfpenny. cheap or tawdry

(intensifier)a twopenny damn

worth two pence

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