twopenny

two·pen·ny

(tŭp′ə-nē, to͞o′pĕn′ē)

adj.

1. Worth or costing two pennies: twopenny candy.

2. Cheap; worthless.

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twopenny

(ˈtʌpənɪ) or

tuppenny

adj

1. Also: twopenny-halfpenny. cheap or tawdry

2. (intensifier): a twopenny damn.

3. worth two pence

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two•pen•ny

(ˈtʌp ə ni, ˈtuˌpɛn i)

also tuppenny

adj.

1. of the amount or value of twopence.

2. costing twopence.

3. of very little value; trifling; worthless.

[1525–35]

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Adj.

twopenny - of trifling worth

sixpenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, threepenny

cheap, inexpensive - relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"

Translations

che vale due pence

twopenny

[ˈtʌpənɪ] ADJ

1. (Brit) → de dos peniques, que vale dos peniques

2. (fig) → insignificante, de poca monta

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'I'm man-servant up at the Travellers' Twopenny in Gas Works Garding,' this thing explains.

'We can't help going round by the Travellers' Twopenny, if we go the short way, which is the back way,' Durdles answers, 'and we'll drop him there.'

And don't let me see any more of you to- night, after we come to the Travellers' Twopenny.'

They have but to cross what was once the vineyard, belonging to what was once the Monastery, to come into the narrow back lane wherein stands the crazy wooden house of two low stories currently known as the Travellers' Twopenny:- a house all warped and distorted, like the morals of the travellers, with scant remains of a lattice-work porch over the door, and also of a rustic fence before its stamped-out garden; by reason of the travellers being so bound to the premises by a tender sentiment (or so fond of having a fire by the roadside in the course of the day), that they can never be persuaded or threatened into departure, without violently possessing themselves of some wooden forget-me-not, and bearing it off.

They are also addressed by some half-dozen other hideous small boys--whether twopenny lodgers or followers or hangers-on of such, who knows!--who, as if attracted by some carrion-scent of Deputy in the air, start into the moonlight, as vultures might gather in the desert, and instantly fall to stoning him and one another.

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As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; and the next moment the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings.

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It doesn't matter a twopenny damn to me one way or the other."

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It was a twopenny novelette, and the author was Courtenay Paget.

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"He thinks with me," said Dorothea to herself, "or rather, he thinks a whole world of which my thought is but a poor twopenny mirror.

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Snodgrass was affected, but he undertook the delivery of the note as readily as if he had been a twopenny postman.

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But the Parisians wanting to save their trumpery skins, and afraid for their twopenny shops, open their gates and there is a beginning of the ragusades, and an end of all joy and happiness; they make a fool of the Empress, and fly the white flag out at the windows.

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"I dropped into a barber's on my way, to get a twopenny shave, and they told me there he was something of a character.