Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Worth or costing two pennies.
- adjective Cheap; worthless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the value of twopence; hence, mean; vulgar; of little worth.
- noun A kind of beer or ale, so called because originally sold at twopence a quart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the value of twopence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a value or cost of
twopence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of trifling worth
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Examples
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Von Brandenburg-Preußen. on January 18, 2009 at 7: 37 am | Reply Von Spreuth xxx does not give a twopenny TOSS about what the VOTERS think, let alone the police, who have been the arch enemy of these scrotes in suits attending Parliament to get their expenses, since they were wee wankers on CND, anti fur, anti bloody EVERYTHING walks (only men of honour MARCH) in the 70s. xxx
Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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You should have learned by now, you are in a dictatorship where the “Government” does not give a twopenny TOSS about what the VOTERS think, let alone the police, who have been the arch enemy of these scrotes in suits attending Parliament to get their expenses, since they were wee wankers on CND, anti fur, anti bloody EVERYTHING walks (only men of honour MARCH) in the 70s.
Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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They don't give a twopenny toss for the country or 'building a future'.
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However, one very reputable firm did issue a twopenny weekly which sought to emulate the Gernsback touch and, when it transpired that all its readers were not errand boys, tried to make itself more respectable, only to fall dismally and wind up altogether.
Archive 2008-08-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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However, one very reputable firm did issue a twopenny weekly which sought to emulate the Gernsback touch and, when it transpired that all its readers were not errand boys, tried to make itself more respectable, only to fall dismally and wind up altogether.
Antiquarian Weird Tales: Fantasy Review Vol. 1, No. 5 Oct-Nov 1946 Chris Perridas 2008
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Robin thus seated, proceeded to light his pipe, and call for a pint of twopenny.
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And on Sundays, when we had a quart of twopenny ale, instead of butter-milk, to our porridge, it was always served up in a silver posset-dish.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Empty out this ruddy twopenny jam tin, juldi karo.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Then the decay of the village itself, which had formerly contained a set of feuars and bonnet-lairds, who, under the name of the Chirupping Club, contrived to drink twopenny, qualified with brandy or whisky, at least twice or thrice a-week, was some small loss.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Empty out this ruddy twopenny jam tin, juldi karo.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
fbharjo commented on the word twopenny
also twopence
August 7, 2010