Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A coin formerly used in Britain and worth six pennies.
- n. The sum of six pennies.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An English silver coin of the value of six pence (about 12 cents); half of a shilling. It was first issued by Edward VI., with a weight of 48 grains, and afterward by other monarchs. The sixpence of Queen Victoria weighs about 43⅓ grains.
- n. The value of six pence, or half a shilling; a slight value: sometimes used attributively.
- n. In the United States, especially in New York, while the coin was in circulation, a Spanish half-real, of the value of 6¼ cents.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970
Etymologies
- six + pence (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He went to a house that he knew of, and offered to chop some wood for sixpence, and with _that sixpence_ he bought the pipes.”
“A YOUNG spendthrift being apprised that he had given a shilling when sixpence would have been enough, remarked that "He knew no difference between a _shilling_ and _sixpence_.”
“They like things to be neat and new, and that sixpence is bent.”
“A sixpence is a tanner, and a shilling a bob; but what a pony is I don't know.”
“Juries also disliked convicting when the penalty for coining sixpence was the same as the penalty for killing a mother.”
“I only know a few words; they call a sixpence a tanner, don't they? ”
“Do you mean thieves 'slang -- cant? no, I don't speak cant, I don't like it, I only know a few words; they call a sixpence a tanner, don't they?”
““A sixpence is a tanner, and a shilling a bob; but what a pony is I don’t know.””
“‘Do you mean thieves’ slang — cant? no, I don’t speak cant, don’t like it, I only know a few words; they call a sixpence a tanner, don’t they?’”
“I have played him and beat him; and a sixpence is my spoil and just reward.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sixpence’.
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Money
This started out as a Scrabble list, so I'm personally limiting myself to listing words which are acceptable in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, but go ahead and list whatever you can find...
lek, shekel, sheqalim, qindar, qindars, qindarka, qintar, qintars, dollar, dollars, penny, pennies and 143 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Coined
cent, penny, nickel, dime, quarter, farthing, shilling, halfpenny, twopence, threepence, sixpence, groat and 91 more...
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South Yorkshire medical terminology
For definitions see the source document.
"All the words and phrases included in this guide are those that have been used by patients during consultations and have been included to assi...winkle, wind pipe, willy, widgy, well, it's a nogg..., wee-wee, water, uncle sam, tuppence, tummy ache, trotters, tootsies and 123 more...
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dickensian
commodious, unaccommodating, curtseyed, conviction, crockery, trousers, obtrusive, irascible, considerable, circumstance, ought, establishment and 53 more...
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sblowes's Words
octothorpe, triskaidekaphobic, triskaidekaphobia, triskaidekaphilia, arachnophilia, succinct, ligature, defenestrate, autumnal, extrapolate, serenity, unction and 8 more...
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christmas
saint nicholas, evergreen, mistletoe, carol, ebenezer scrooge, poinsettia, christingle, sixpence
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sixpence.
ruzuzu See tester and tanner. Jun 28, 2010