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ha'penny

[ hey-puh-nee, heyp-nee ]

noun

British.
plural ha'pennies.
  1. contraction of halfpenny.


ha'penny

/ ˈ³ó±ðɪ±è²Ôɪ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of halfpenny
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

"We didn't have two ha'pennies to rub together," Don remembers.

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“Your mother might want to put in her sixpence ha'penny, but...â€

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"But it's the little details that are so heart-breaking. Her pathetic possessions: in her saddlebag she had 10 cigarettes for her brother-in-law, fivepence ha'penny and a handkerchief."

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In the 1920s each empty yielded a ha'penny, but by the 1980s it had risen to the princely sum of 10p.

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The tabletop travel game is a cross between bowls and shove ha'penny, where players aim to get their discs closest to the jack.

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