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Tuppence   Listen
noun
tuppence  n.  
1.
A former U.K. silver coin; a U.K. bronze decimal coin worth two pennies.
Synonyms: twopence





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"Tuppence" Quotes from Famous Books



... him cynical," she went on in her pretty, dragging voice. "Particularly as regards women. His mother was a perfectly beautiful woman, with the temper of a fiend. She lived simply and solely for her own enjoyment, and never cared tuppence about ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... goodness. The places and the people she does go and hunt up when she's got the fit on are truly ridic'lous: blest if she didn't acshally make Mr. Jenkins drive her down into Camberwell the other mornin', to see 'ow the poor lived, she said; as if it mattered tuppence to us in our circles of society 'ow the poor live. I wonder what little game she's up to now? Well, well, what the aristocracy is coming to in these days is more'n I can fathom, as sure as my ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... Priscilla, "for I can't, either. I never could shy worth tuppence. Curious, isn't it? Hardly any ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... that lanky long may-pole, Gerty Chattesworth, the witch?—not that anyone cares tuppence if she rode on a broom to sweep the cobwebs off the moon, only a body may as well know, you know,' said Miss Mag, preparing ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu


Words linked to "Tuppence" :   coin


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