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twopenny
[ tuhp-uh-nee, too-pen-ee ]
adjective
- of the amount or value of twopence.
- costing twopence.
- of very little value; trifling; worthless.
twopenny
/ ˈʌəɪ /
adjective
- Also: twopenny-halfpenny. cheap or tawdry
- (intensifier)
a twopenny damn
- worth two pence
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Our daughter picked her way through a mechanical funhouse, then fed twopenny coins into slot machines.
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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.
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Over 10 years, Trump's so-called “twopenny plan” adds up to a 27 percent reduction across the board.
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"London, all agape, crowds to the twopenny tube," the Daily Mail reported in the week of its opening.
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They would hold out the town itself as security, a twopenny rate, promises, accommodations, anything.
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