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halfpenny
English
Alternative forms
- (with the first element, half, preserved) halfepenny, halfepeny, halfepenie, halfepenye; halfpenny, halfpeny, halfpenie, halfpenye (all obsolete except halfpenny)
- (with the first element reduced to hal-, ha’, or ha-) halpeny, halpenye, hapeney, ha’penny, hapenny, happenny (all obsolete except ha’penny)
- (with the first element corrupted to haw-) hawpny (dialectal, obsolete)
- (pre-decimalisation abbreviation) ½d
Etymology
From the Middle English halpeni, either from the late-Old English halpenige or from half +? peni; equivalent to half +? penny and continually reinforced by that surface analysis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?he?p(?)ni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??f?p?ni/ (spelling pronunciation)
Noun
halfpenny (plural halfpennies or halfpence)
- (plural: halfpennies) (historical) A discontinued British coin worth half of one penny (old or new).
- Christmas is coming (traditional carol)
- If you haven't got a penny, / A ha'penny will do, / If you haven't got a ha'penny, / Then God bless you.
- Christmas is coming (traditional carol)
- (plural: halfpence) A quantity of money worth half a penny.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It (act III, scene 2)
- There were none principal; they were all like one another as halfpence are; every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It (act III, scene 2)
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
halfpenny (not comparable)
- Costing or worth one halfpenny.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 (act IV, scene 2)
- There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 (act IV, scene 2)
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bawbee
English
Etymology
From Scots bawbee.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b???bi?/
Noun
bawbee (plural bawbees)
- (Scotland, historical) A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny.
- (figuratively) A copper; a small amount of money.
- 2007, Simon Hoggart, The Guardian, 12 Jul 2007:
- He said there were already plans for a tramline, and a museum of the theatre. Folk should not, he implied, waste their bawbees on the devil's spinning wheel.
- 2007, Simon Hoggart, The Guardian, 12 Jul 2007:
Scots
Etymology
Probably shortened from Sillebawbe, the territorial designation of Alexander Orrok, Scottish master of the mint in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???bi?/
Noun
bawbee (plural bawbees)
- (historical) bawbee, halfpenny
- 1823, Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well:
- ‘And muckle they hae made o't—the bankrupt body, Sandie Lawson, hasna paid them a bawbee of four terms' rent.’
- 1823, Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well:
- money
- dowry
- 1803, Alexander Boswell, ‘Jenny's Bawbee’:
- A' clatty, squinting through a glass, / He girn'd, ‘I'faith a bonnie lass!’ / He thought to win, wi' front o' brass, / Jenny's bawbee.
- 1803, Alexander Boswell, ‘Jenny's Bawbee’:
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