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Definition: Twopenny |
TwopennyAdjective1. Costing 3 cents (United States) or 2 pence (Britain); "twopenny candy". 2. Of trifling worth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "twopenny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Synonyms: TwopennySynonyms: sixpenny (adj), threepenny (adj), tuppeny (adj), two-a-penny (adj), twopenny-halfpenny (adj). (additional references) |
| "Twopenny" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Twopenny" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "twopenny": twopenny half penny. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "twopenny": twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny-pockets. | |
| 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 |
twopenny | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "twopenny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i lirë (at ease, available, brummagem, cheap, clear, disengaged, disposable, empty, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, frugal, inexpensive, loose, native, off, off duty, off-hour, open, quit, scotfree, unattached, unbound, uncostly, uninhibited, unoccupied, vacant), dypenësh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قيمته بنسان, زهيد القيمة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | 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-halfpenny, uncostly), без стойност (hollow, inane, naught, twopenny-halfpenny, valueless, worthless), двупенсов. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dvoupencový. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | de deux pence (two a penny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חסר ערך (fiddling, junk, light, paltry, picayune, pip squeak, rubbishy, trashy, two bit, twopenny half penny, vain, valueless, worthless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kétpennys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | daa phing (twopence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opennytway variedade de cerveja, ordinário (base, base-minded, bum, common, everyday, garden, ordinary, penny-a-line, run-of-the-mill, stinker, usual, vulgar), cachola (addle-pate, coconut, nob, noddle, nut, pate, sconce), barato (brummagem, cheap, cheaply, inexpensive, penny-a-line, pinchbeck). (various references) monedã de doi peni, ieftin (cheap, commonplace, fair, inexpensive, inexpensively, low, low-priced, modest, popular, reasonable, threepenny, trite, worthless), de doi penny. (various references) двухпенсовый, дешевый (brummagem, cheap, crumby, dime, flashy, inexpensive, jitney, low-cost, threepenny, uncostly). (various references) od dva penija, koji ne vredi mnogo. (various references) que vale dos peniques, miserable (abject, beggarly, dismal, meager, measly, miserable, moldy, mouldy, paltry, poor, sordid, squalid, wretched), insignificante (fiddling, inconsiderable, insignificant, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant), despreciable (abject, contemptible, crummy, despicable, miserable, negligible, pitiful, scabby, scornful), de dos peniques. (various references) iki penilik (tuppeny), iki kuruşluk (tuppeny), 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-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog). (various references) двопенсовий, дешевий (cheap, jitney, nickel and dime, pinchbeck, sixpenny, utility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "twopenny" (pronounced 'Two"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-n-n-o-p-t-w-y" | |
-2 letters: newton, ponent. | |
-3 letters: netop, nonet, penny, peony, tenon, tepoy, toney, tonne, towny, wenny. | |
-4 letters: enow, neon, newt, none, nope, note, nowt, open, pent, peon, poet, pone, pony, tone, tony, tope, town, towy, tyne, type, typo, went, wept, wont, wynn, wyte, yowe. | |
-5 letters: eon, net, new, not, now, one, ope, opt, owe, own, pen, pet. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-n-o-p-t-w-y" | |
+1 letter: pennywort. | |
+2 letters: pennyworth, pennyworts. | |
+3 letters: pennyworths. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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