Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or possessed of a penny.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
penny .
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Examples
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It costs them pennied if anything to distribute them.
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Millions and millions of purchases each day instantly pennied and parlayed.
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Eight of your enemies pennied your door and you suck at revenge.
second jamie bishop scholarship jlundberg 2007
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Mr Bonteen had been appointed chiefly because it was thought that he might in that office act as a quasi House of Commons deputy to the Duke of Omnium in carrying out his great scheme of a five-farthinged penny and a ten-pennied shilling.
Phineas Redux 2004
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As we read the description we have no hesitancy in believing that the "unpennied sweep" frequently became a pennied sweep after the gentle Elia had passed by.
Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912
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Mr Bonteen had been appointed chiefly because it was thought that he might in that office act as a quasi House of Commons deputy to the Duke of Omnium in carrying out his great scheme of a five-farthinged penny and a ten-pennied shilling.
Phineas Redux 1873
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Commons deputy to the Duke of Omnium in carrying out his great scheme of a five-farthinged penny and a ten-pennied shilling.
Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848
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Decidedly not -- there is nothing to match it; and so thinks 'the one-pennied boy' who spares him his one penny, and deems it well bestowed.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 Various 1836
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The first thing that was wrong was that Kate had locked the door to our bedroom, when there wasn’t really a lock, which meant she’d either pushed up furniture or pennied it shut.
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004
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