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  • noun Something worth two pennies
  • noun One's opinion

Etymologies

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Contraction of two pennies worth

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Examples

  • And in Yehonala's case, how long would it have been before she remembered how much dangerous knowledge I had of her and her ambitions, and the debt had dwindled into insignificance, with Little An putting in his twopenn'orth of hate?

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • And in Yehonala's case, how long would it have been before she remembered how much dangerous knowledge I had of her and her ambitions, and the debt had dwindled into insignificance, with Little An putting in his twopenn'orth of hate?

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • "This is twopenn'orth of milk, is it waiter?" said Mr. Squeers.

    Ten Boys from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser 1903

  • But those who think nothing of charging a soldier 6d. for a penny bottle of soda-water, or 2s. for twopenn'orth of cake, tremble for the feelings of their wives and daughters.

    Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

  • 'This is twopenn'orth of milk, is it, waiter?' said Mr Squeers, looking down into a large blue mug, and slanting it gently, so as to get an accurate view of the quantity of liquid contained in it.

    Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

  • 'Ven the lady and gen'l'm'n as keeps the hot-el first begun business, they used to make the beds on the floor; but this wouldn't do at no price,' cos instead o 'taking a moderate twopenn'orth o' sleep, the lodgers used to lie there half the day.

    The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

  • 'Ven the lady and gen'l'm'n as keeps the hot-el first begun business, they used to make the beds on the floor; but this wouldn't do at no price,' cos instead o 'taking a moderate twopenn'orth o' sleep, the lodgers used to lie there half the day.

    The Pickwick papers 1836

  • You're entitled to your twopenn'orth of stabbing a guess at the future along with the rest of us; what I object to with you Val, old cock, is that you barge into someone's front room because the door is open and a party is in progress; slag off the hostess because you don't like the decor of the parlour and expect the guests who do to salaam at your opinions because your have some influential friends in the halls of academe.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

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