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tenpenny adjective UKuk /ˈtenˌpen.i/ us /ˈten.pen.i/ costing or worth ten pennies: On his keychain he kept a tenpenny knife that he had won as a prize at a carnival. She felt in her pocket for a tenpenny piece and dropped it in the collection box. She extracted a tenpenny coin from her purse and handed it to the shopkeeper. She gave him the usual shiny new tenpenny piece. I remember when you could still send a letter with a tenpenny stamp. He kept dropping the tenpenny bits through his fingers in his pockets. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Informal words for money boodle bread buck cheddar defence fund G, g gee grand K, k lolly lucre pickings shekel spondulicks tanner the readies thou ton wonga your daily breadidiom |