tuppenny
/ˈtʌpəni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes the weasel."
- "Then they went off to prepare for the journey […], Peter filling his six-penny pipe with tuppenny tobacco."
- "The City & South London initially had a flat single fare of 2d., but it was the Central London Railway, opened ten years later, that would be nicknamed 'The Tuppenny Tube' for its flat fare of the same amount. The Central was so-called by the Daily Mail, [...]"
- "A Lord High Chancellor is a personage of great dignity, who should never, under any circumstances, place himself in the position of being told to tuck in his tuppenny, except by noblemen of his own rank."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtʌpəni/
- British English: /ˈtʌpəni/
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Dated