halfpenny 的 2 个定义
plural half·pen·nies for 1; half·pence [hey-puhns] /ˈheɪ pəns/ for 2.
- a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- the sum of half a penny.
- of the price or value of a halfpenny.
- of little value; worthless: a halfpenny matter.
- British Informal. sensational, especially morbidly or offensively so.
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- The price of tobacco accordingly dropped from fourpence a pound to a halfpenny per pound by 1667.
- Nothing further transpired, however, and the readers of the halfpenny press for once were deprived of their sensation.
- When I was a boy, such a thing was out of the question, as to each paper a fourpenny-halfpenny stamp was attached.
- Why, in tossing up a halfpenny, do we reckon it equally probable that we shall throw cross or pile?
- The flowers are lovely; you can buy a big bunch of violets for a son, and sou is the peasant word for a halfpenny.