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penny
1[ pen-ee ]
noun
- a copper and zinc U.S. coin, worth one 100th of the U.S. dollar; one cent. Previous compositions of U.S. pennies included certain percentages of nickel and steel.
- a coin worth one 100th of the dollar of various other nations, although several of these nations, as Australia and New Zealand, no longer use pennies.
- Also called new penny. a copper-plated steel, formerly bronze, coin of the United Kingdom, one 100th of a pound. : p
- a former bronze coin and monetary unit of the United Kingdom and various other nations, one 12th of a shilling: use phased out in 1971. : d.
- a sum of money:
He spent every penny he ever earned.
- the length of a nail in terms of certain standard designations, as eightpenny and sixtypenny.
adjective
- Stock Exchange. of, relating to, or being penny stock:
frenzied speculation in the penny market.
Penny
2[ pen-ee ]
noun
- a female given name, form of Penelope.
penny
/ ˈɛɪ /
noun
- Also called (formerly)new penny (in Britain) a bronze coin having a value equal to one hundredth of a pound p
- (in Britain before 1971) a bronze or copper coin having a value equal to one twelfth of a shilling or one two-hundred-and-fortieth of a pound d
- a former monetary unit of the Republic of Ireland worth one hundredth of a pound
- pennies (in the US and Canada) a cent
- a coin of similar value, as used in several other countries
- informal.used with a negative the least amount of money
I don't have a penny
- a bad penny informal.an objectionable person or thing (esp in the phrase turn up like a bad penny )
- a pretty penny informal.a considerable sum of money
- spend a penny informal.to urinate
- the penny dropped informal.the explanation of something was finally realized
- two a pennyplentiful but of little value
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of penny1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of penny1
Idioms and Phrases
- a bad penny, someone or something undesirable.
- a pretty penny, Informal. a considerable sum of money:
Their car must have cost them a pretty penny.
- spend a penny, Chiefly British Slang. to urinate.
- turn an honest penny, to earn one's living honestly; make money by fair means:
He's never turned an honest penny in his life.
More idioms and phrases containing penny
- in for a penny, in for a pound
- pinch pennies
- pretty penny
- turn up (like a bad penny)
Example Sentences
She was the first in her family to go to college, and then law school, borrowing “every penny” for her education, she said.
Councillors have added that under other deals offered, no worker needed "to lose a penny".
He told us it was something of an arranged marriage, as his mother kept inviting Stella for dinner until eventually the penny dropped that he should take her out.
He warms up his audience with a grand promise—“I will not cut one penny from Social Security.”
"All agreements on the level of President Trump are only worth a few pennies on market day" the newspaper concluded, while "Moscow is prepared to make a deal with the US president."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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