Usually means: Honest person of small means.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. truepenny: Merriam-Webster
  2. truepenny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. truepenny: Collins English Dictionary
  4. truepenny: Wiktionary
  5. truepenny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. truepenny: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. truepenny: Dictionary.com
  8. truepenny: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. Truepenny: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. truepenny: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Truepenny: World Wide Words

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  1. truepenny: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (truepenny)

▸ noun:  (obsolete, sometimes capitalized) An honest, reliable fellow.

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lickpenny, penny-father, pennyweighter, scrape-penny, penny-pincher, penny pincher, bad penny, tell-truth, penny-a-liner, panton, more...

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lickpenny, penny-father, pennyweighter, scrape-penny, penny-pincher, penny pincher, bad penny, tell-truth, penny-a-liner, panton, more...



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