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Definitions: Threepenny |
ThreepennyAdjective1. Used of nail size; 1 1/8 in long. 2. Costing 3 cents (United States) or 3 pence (Britain). 3. Of trifling worth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "threepenny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: ThreepennySynonyms: sixpenny (adj), tuppeny (adj), two-a-penny (adj), twopenny (adj), twopenny-halfpenny (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Threepenny |
| Specialty definitions using "threepenny": BORN UNDER A THREEPENNY HALFPENNY PLANET ♦ NEVER TO BE WORTH AGROAT. (references) |
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| "Threepenny" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Threepenny" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "threepenny": a threepenny bit ♦ threepenny bit. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "threepenny": threepenny-bit. | |
Ending with "threepenny": one-and-threepenny. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
threepenny opera | 26 |
review threepenny | 9 |
opera synopsis threepenny | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "threepenny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trepensësh, i pavlerë (bad, barren, base, catchpenny, chaffy, cheap, crummy, dud, expendable, fiddling, footling, frivolous, futile, jejune, measly, nugatory, paltry, peddling, tawdry, trashy, vain, valueless, worthless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | на стойност три пени, за три пени. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | třípencový. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | három pennys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tree pingyn (threepence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eepennythray que custa três moedas, no valor de três moedas. (various references) monedã de trei peni (a threepenny bit), ieftin (cheap, commonplace, fair, inexpensive, inexpensively, low, low-priced, modest, popular, reasonable, trite, twopenny, worthless), fãrã valoare (cheap, frothy, good for nothing, halfpenny, indifferent, mean, measly, odd trifles, pale, piffling, simple, trashy, trivial, trumpery, useless, void, worthless), care costã trei peni. (various references) стоящий три пенса, дешевый (brummagem, cheap, crumby, dime, flashy, inexpensive, jitney, low-cost, twopenny, uncostly). (various references) male vrednosti. (various references) trepenceslant (threepence, threepenny bit). (various references) ที่มีมูลค่า 3 เพนนี. (various references) tồi (deplorable, doggerel, foul, illy, poor, poorly, punk, rotten, third-rate, trashy, wretched), chẳng đáng nửa đồng, đáng khinh (contemptible, dirty, picayune, scaly, scurvy, unworthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "threepenny" (pronounced 'Three"pen*ny'): Acrimony, Acrophony, AEgophony, Agony, Agrimony, Agrotechny, Alimony, Alleghany, Amphictyony, Amphigony, Ancony, Anemony, Angelophany, Antagony, Anthropogeny, Antimony, Antiphony, Archegony, Astrogeny, Astrogony, Atony, Autochthony, Autophony, Averpenny, Balcony, Barony, Baryphony, Betony, Binny, Blenny, Branny, Brimstony, Briony, Bronchophony, Bryony, Cacophony, Cacotechny, Calumny, Cassidony, Castellany, Catchpenny, Ceremony, Chalcedony, Chapellany, Chatellany, Christophany, Colophany, Colophony, Conny, Coparceny. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-n-n-p-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: nepenthe. | |
-3 letters: hennery, pentene, preteen, prythee, terpene. | |
-4 letters: entree, eterne, ethene, ethyne, nether, penner, pyrene, rennet, repent, retene, retype, teener, tenner, threep. | |
-5 letters: enter, entry, ether, henry, hyper, peery, penne, penny, peter, preen, rente, teeny, tepee, terne, there, three, treen, yente. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-n-n-p-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: hyperintense. | |
+4 letters: hyperextending, hyperextension. | |
+5 letters: hyperextensions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 72 65 65 70 65 6E 6E 79 |
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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