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tuppenny
/ˈtʌpəni/
noun 2adj 1
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4ADJ.
half
VERB + TUPPENNY
nicknamed, pipe, pound, tuck
TUPPENNY + NOUN
noblemen, rice, tobacco, tube'
PREP.
except, in, with
Definitions
adj
1
Literally, worth tuppence (two pence); of little value or status.
Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes the weasel.
Then they went off to prepare for the journey […], Peter filling his six-penny pipe with tuppenny tobacco.
noun
1
A coin or stamp worth two pence.
2
In the children's game of leapfrog, the head (perhaps named from a tuppenny loaf).
A Lord High Chancellor is a personage of great dignity, who should never, under any circumstances, place himself in the position of being told to tuck in his tuppenny, except by noblemen of his own rank.
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Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes the weasel.
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Then they went off to prepare for the journey […], Peter filling his six-penny pipe with tuppenny tobacco.
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The City & South London initially had a flat single fare of 2d., but it was the Central London Railway, opened ten years later, that would be nicknamed 'The Tuppenny Tube' for its flat fare of the sam
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A Lord High Chancellor is a personage of great dignity, who should never, under any circumstances, place himself in the position of being told to tuck in his tuppenny, except by noblemen of his own ra
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