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(law, obsolete) Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bad, penny: A counterfeit or damaged penny.
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(idiomatic) Something worthless or of small value.
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(Britain) the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
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(US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).
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(Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
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(US slang) The number 55 (by extension).
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(obsolete) earnest money; an advance payment to make an agreement binding
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(UK, slang, archaic) A farthing (old coin).
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(dated, costermongers, crime) A counterfeit half-crown.
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Alternative form of forpet [(dated, Scotland) A quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.]
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(colloquial, dated) Something that makes money; a financially successful affair.
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Alternative form of get-penny [(colloquial, dated) Something that makes money; a financially successful affair.]
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(archaic or historical) Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A fourpenny piece, or its value; fourpence worth.
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(obsolete) Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive.
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(idiomatic, dated) To look annoyed or displeased.
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A coin carried for luck.
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(humorous) An indefinite amount of money, implied to be large.
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(US, slang, by extension) Five hundred dollars.
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(US, idiomatic, colloquial) Small time; operating on a small scale; involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap.
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(US, idiomatic, derogatory, dated) Synonym of fifty-cent tour.
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Alternative spelling of nickel and dime [(US, idiomatic, colloquial) Small time; operating on a small scale; involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap.]
adj
(idiomatic) Worth nothing or next to nothing.
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(colloquial, obsolete) Alternative form of pennyworth [The amount that can be bought for a penny.]
adj
Having a penny, or some amount of money.
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(idiomatic) A small amount of money, much less than would be expected.
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A small bun that sells for a penny.
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(originally derogatory, now usually historical) A cheap paperback book, particularly those concerning lurid depictions of crime in the Victorian era.
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(historical) An entertainment in 19th-century England consisting of short theatrical displays such as dancing, singing, clowning, and plays.
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Alternative form of penny gaff [(historical) An entertainment in 19th-century England consisting of short theatrical displays such as dancing, singing, clowning, and plays.]
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(Scotland, historical) Rent in money, not in kind.
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A small number of things or people; a small group.
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(Scotland, obsolete, idiomatic) A wedding at which the guests contribute payments to help cover the cost of the event and to benefit the newly-married couple.
adj
Alternative form of penny wise and pound foolish [(idiomatic) Prudent and thrifty with small amounts of money, but wasteful with large amounts.]
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(derogatory, dated) One who supplies writing to public journals for a set fee per line of text; a poor writer for hire; a hack.
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Played for small stakes.
adj
Alternative form of penny wise and pound foolish [(idiomatic) Prudent and thrifty with small amounts of money, but wasteful with large amounts.]
n
(uncountable, Oxbridge slang) The activity of pennying in general, as part of a meal or drinking game, whereby dropping a penny in a person's drink means that they must finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.
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A nominal rent, originally of a single peppercorn.
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(chiefly in the plural) Money in pounds sterling earned from the sale of oil.
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(idiomatic) A considerable amount of money; a high price or a high income.
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Synonym of shove ha'penny
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(Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, historical) various national currencies typically known by the name "pound"
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(Australia, informal) A fictitious coin of very low value.
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(US, slang) A ten-dollar bill.
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(Britain, historical) A cheap paperback book produced for the mass market in 19th-century Britain, often consolidating twelve to fifteen episodes of a serial novel whose chapters had previously been published separately as penny dreadful pamphlets. Shilling shockers were typically focused on the subjects of crime and violence and were especially popular in late Victorian England. The novels were rather short and cost one shilling.
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(UK, obsolete, slang) A sixpence coin.
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Alternative form of spear penny [(historical, law) A fine under medieval Welsh law levied on related male landowners when the immediate kin of a murderer proved incapable of paying galanas]
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(archaic) money due to a castle guard at the end of his service
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(obsolete) A tester; a sixpence.
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Of little worth; mean; vulgar.
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(obsolete, slang) A threepenny bit.
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(UK, slang, archaic) A sixpence; a tester.
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(Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value
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(obsolete, sometimes capitalized) An honest, reliable fellow.
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(obsolete, UK, slang) A shilling.
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(idiomatic) A minimal amount of money to live on; any money at all.
adj
Cheap; worthless; petty.
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A US one-cent coin produced from 1909 to 1959, having a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the obverse and a pair of ears of wheat on the reverse.
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(US) The smallest amount of money imaginable.
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