Crossword clues for threepenny
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Threepenny \Three"pen*ny\, a. Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
Wiktionary
a. Having a value or cost of threepence.
WordNet
adj. used of nail size; 1 1/8 in long
of trifling worth [syn: sixpenny, twopenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny]
Usage examples of "threepenny".
My excellent friend proceeded on the good old lines of compensation advocacy with the same comfortable routine that one plays the old family rubber of threepenny points.
Working through wicked airs and deadly dews That make the laden robber grin askance At the good places in his black romance, And the poor, loitering harlot rather choose Go pinched and pined to bed Than lurk and shiver and curse her wretched way From arch to arch, scouting some threepenny prey.
Did its being forbidden make a threepenny beefsteak suddenly quadruple in worth?
In October, Brecht had brought a legal action against the Nero film company, which was making a movie of his Threepenny Opera.
In the second place, that envelope was sealed, apparently with a threepenny bit.
It lay in his hand, and amounted to twelve shillings, a sixpence, two threepenny bits, and four pennies.
Holy Land, and the loveliest music, and beautiful children in white, singing hymns, and bright colours all about, and no collection plates to take your only threepenny bit-oh!
They shake out the threepenny bits and sixpences and coax out the pennies with the blade of a knife.
They give two threepenny bits to the gentleman at the turnstile and begin to waddle slowly up the winding staircase, grunting, encouraging each other, afraid of the dark, panting, one asking the other have you the brawn, praising God and the Blessed Virgin, threatening to come down, peeping at the airslits.
Apart from that, the place is miles of mouldering terraces containing two classes of persons: Threepenny Opera crooks and the undeserving poor.
Come with me, and I'll give you the threepenny tour of the Muddling Through.
I'll let you have this (producing a beastly little threepenny bit with a hole in it which he had probably picked up in the street) until I can pay you back.
Ah'm expirin' for want of a smoke, and Ah've only a threepenny piece to ma name.
The Anglia came past me slowly as I searched for a threepenny piece.
Thereafter he was wont to bewail the fact that his career was blighted by a threepenny piece.