Threepenny
[θripeni]
Definition
(a.) Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
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Examples
- Not knowing the different prices, nor the names of the different sorts of bread, I told him to give me threepenny worth of any sort. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I then asked for a threepenny loaf, and was told they had none. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- For all I know'd he was one o' the regular threepennies. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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