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tuppenny

/tuhp-uh-nee/US // ˈtʌp ə ni //UK // (ˈtʌpənɪ) //

偶数,偶遇,偶数的,偶而

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : twopenny.

Examples

  • There's been two thousand deserters already in this tuppenny-ha'penny war, and none on 'em the worse off.

  • And you carn't do the rooral to-rights on a tract and a tuppenny bun.

  • It was the tuppence that attracted her; she had never bought a spell, and even a tuppenny one would be something new.

  • Ever since the day when the tuppenny spell did its work Harry has been kinder than before and Lucy braver.

  • Outside it looks like a fifty-guinea hunting watch, open it and you find it's tuppenny-halfpenny gun-metal.

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