Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of currency worth 1/64 of a rupee, formerly used in India.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A money of account and a copper coin (one fourth of the anna) of India under British rule, equal to about three fourths of a United States cent. Also paysa, pysa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.
- noun An Alternative spelling of
paisa .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I sooooooooo wish I could go to the Comic Con but the pice is CRAZY.
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A little woman comes up with a pinched face and she puts down a pice; that is a quarter of a cent; India is what they call a pice country.
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Or, perchance, mystery and importance have been found, during his long and varied experience with the unsophisticated tourist, excellent things to increase the volume of importance attached to the exhibited articles, and the volume of "pice" in his exchequer.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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Its a pice about 3pounds but I found a whole log of it.
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Its a pice about 3pounds but I found a whole log of it.
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They would love to drag your A$$ down the street of baghdad dangling by a pice of rope connected to the back of a truck.
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They are made of earthenware, shaped like hearts or tarts or leaves, and they cost two pice each, and in each we shall pour oil and float a wick; then we shall set them all along the roof and at the windows and in rows on the steps and at the gate and over the gate, and we shall light them.
Two Young English Girls in India Linda 2009
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I'm not an engineer, but how much does it weigh at a velocity of 1600MPH? this is what that 2lb pice of foam did ...
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They are made of earthenware, shaped like hearts or tarts or leaves, and they cost two pice each, and in each we shall pour oil and float a wick; then we shall set them all along the roof and at the windows and in rows on the steps and at the gate and over the gate, and we shall light them.
Archive 2009-07-01 Linda 2009
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I raised the pice spontaneously (by $100) and the other guy bailed.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
hernesheir commented on the word pice
Another term for the Wordnik money/currency listers.
November 25, 2010