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penny
English
Etymology
From Middle English peny, from Old English penning, penni?, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?.ni/
- Rhymes: -?ni
- (in compounds like "twopenny", dated) IPA(key): /p?ni/
Noun
penny (plural pennies or pence or (obsolete) pens)
- (historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1?240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1?100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p.
- (historical) In Ireland, a coin worth 1?100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
- In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1?100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.
- In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
- A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
- Money in general.
Usage notes
The plural pence is only used as a unit of currency. The plural pennies is used for other cases, in particular when referring to multiple individual coins.
Compounds (twopence, threepence, fourpence and so on up to tenpence, but not eleven pence or any higher) should be read with the stress on the first syllable and a reduced /?/ in pence. Thus /?t?p?ns/, /????p?ns/, /?f??p?ns/ and so on.
Synonyms
- (1?240 of a pound sterling): old penny
- (1?100 of a pound sterling): new penny (old-fashioned)
- (one-cent coin): cent
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
penny (third-person singular simple present pennies, present participle pennying, simple past and past participle pennied)
- (slang) To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
- Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.
- (electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.
See also
- d
- cent
- the penny drops
Anagrams
- Pynne
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English penny.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?.ni/
Noun
penny m (plural pennys)
- penny
Further reading
- “penny” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Noun
penny m (plural pennies)
- Alternative spelling of péni
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pesewa
English
Etymology
From Twi Akan p?s?wa (“penny, penny's worth of gold dust”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??se?w?/
- Hyphenation: pe?se?wa
Noun
pesewa (plural pesewas)
- In the currency of Ghana, one hundredth of a cedi.
Usage notes
- In 1965 the pesewa corresponded to one British penny, but inflation has rendered the pesewa too small for normal use.
Anagrams
- asweep
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