Twopenny-halfpenny

Definition: Twopenny-halfpenny

Twopenny-halfpenny

Adjective

1. Of trifling worth.

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Date "twopenny-halfpenny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms: Twopenny-halfpenny

Albanian

që nuk vlen as dy grosh. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, unconsidered, unimportant), евтин (brummagem, cheap, cheesy, dime, gaudy, halfpenny, hand-me-down, inexpensive, jitney, light, meretricious, sleazy, tawdry, tinsel, trumpery, two bit, twopence colored, twopence coloured, twopenny, uncostly), без стойност (hollow, inane, naught, twopenny, valueless, worthless). (various references)

French

de rien de tout, de deux sous. (various references)

Hungarian

értéktelen (barren, bum, chaffy, cheap, drossy, feckless, misbegotten, null, off-cast, paltry, pelting, punk, screwy, trashy, unhelpful, unworthy, valueless, vile, worthless). (various references)

Pig Latin

openny-halfpennytway

Russian 

грошовый (halfpenny, pennyworth). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neznatan (inconsiderable, insignificant, little, negligible, unsubstantial), beznačajan (fiddling, immaterial, insignificant, irrelative, irrelevant, nugatory, peddling, pointless, trifling, trivial, unimportant). (various references)

Turkish

iki buçuk penilik, adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog). (various references)