tuppenny
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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The Germans are hot favourites, but Rangers surely couldn't give a tuppenny damn about that.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2022
"I will not go to Germany, I will not embrace this tuppenny princess, and I will not be mated like a prize bull!" snaps the prince.
From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2012
Second in importance to Philatelist Hind's $82,500 scraps were three more Mauritius stamps—one tuppenny, two one-pennies— owned by Alfred F. Lichtenstein of Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Samaria when she steamed into New York Harbor were 138 British children, tagged, labeled, carrying knapsacks, duffle bags, copies of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, gas-mask containers crammed with tuppenny treasures, dolls, souvenirs.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Wot do you s'y for 'Gimme a tuppenny packet o' Nosegay'?"
From Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by Hall, James Norman
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