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  • noun Plural form of thruppence.

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  • Seven thruppences is one an nine; lodgin, two shillin -- three an nine.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • By virty, November 27, 2009 @ 6:27 am i’d go for the free range beast, never know what your liable to pick up in the entrails, then reuse in the stuffin’ just like we used to do with thruppences and sixpences in our xmas pudd in the good old days.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Happy Thanksgiving… 2009

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