twopenny

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   costing or worth two old pennies

   The shop sold penny pamphlets and twopenny salads.

2. 2
   adj

   cheap, trivial, or of little worth

   He dismissed the article as a twopenny attack on serious scholarship.

3. 3
   noun

   a coin, stamp, or other item worth two pennies

   She paid with a worn twopenny from the bottom of her purse.

From two + penny. In established British pronunciation, the first two elements contract to tuppenny. The value sense dates from the old pounds-shillings-pence system; the figurative sense treats low price as low quality or importance.

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