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An English coin worth half a penny
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halfpenny
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES not have two pennies/halfpennies/beans to rub together twopenny-halfpenny EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For many children, spending money was a Saturday penny and a Wednesday halfpenny . ▪ He said the accused, Richard Hodgson could ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Halfpenny is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ben Halfpenny , English rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s Chelsea Halfpenny (born 1991), English actress Jill Halfpenny , English actress Leigh Halfpenny , Welsh rugby footballer ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c. (though implied in Old English healfpenigwurð "halfpenny-worth"); see half + penny .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Costing or worth one halfpenny. n. 1 (''plural:'' '''halfpennies''') (context historical English) A discontinued British coin worth half of one penny (old or new). 2 (''plural:'' '''halfpence''') A quantity of money worth half a penny.
Usage examples of halfpenny.
The grants for the year amounted to something less than four millions, and the provisions made for this expense exceeded it in the sum of two hundred and seventy-one thousand and twenty-four pounds, ten shillings and sixpence halfpenny.
I hope I do old Mr. Turveydrop no wrong, but I never saw any better traits in him than these I faithfully record, except that he certainly conceived a liking for Peepy and would take the child out walking with great pomp, always on those occasions sending him home before he went to dinner himself, and occasionally with a halfpenny in his pocket.
How, he asked Derues, had he found the 100,000 livres to buy Buisson-Souef, he who had not a halfpenny a short time ago?
As she would not tell me I got a birch rod, and twining her over my lap gave her bum a sharp tickling, when she said that Captain Powell sent for her brother and her, and he gave her brother a halfpenny to buy some sweets.
If another, then, paying a halfpenny, takes the lettuces, and you, not paying it, go without them, do not imagine that he hath gained any advantage over you.
For as he hath the lettuces, so you have the halfpenny which you did not give.
Three boys and three girls each receive 1 halfpenny apple and 2 third-penny apples.
The calls to Lodge had taken all my small change, and for a moment I looked blankly at the threepenny piece and two halfpennies which were all I could dredge from my trouser pocket.