sixpennyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsɪkspəni/, U.S.

/ˈsɪksˌpɛni/,

/ˈsɪkspəni/

Etymology: six adj.

1. sixpenny nail n. a nail originally costing sixpence per hundred. (See penny n. 5.) Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > specific price or size of nail

tenpenny nail1426

threepenny nail1429

fourpenny nail1481

sixpenny nail1486

fives1629

forty-penny nail1769

tenpenny1820

1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 67 For iijc x peny nayl to þe vyse, ii s. vj d.; Also for iiijc vj peny nayl, ij s.]

1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 16 cc vj peny nailes xij^d.

1494–5 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 43 Pro clauis voc' sixpeny nayle iijd.

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 128 Rap at the wicket with the six~penny nayle of modesty.

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 8 Four Penny, and Six Penny Nails, used for Pantile Lathing.

1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 309 A prepared Six-penny (or..a Ten-penny) Nail.

1833 Penny Cycl. I. 119/1 A six~penny nail, 73 to the lb., 2½ inches long.

1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools App. 46 The force required to draw a ‘sixpenny nail’ of 73 to the lb.

2. Of persons: That may be hired for sixpence; earning no more than sixpence; worth only sixpence; paltry, petty. Also of things. Common as a depreciatory term c1590–1630.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > of people

vile1340

light1529

sixpenny1561

single-soled1588

squirting1592

washya1631

insignificant1669

snotty-nosed1682

nerdy1960

nerkish1975

nerdish1980

1561 T. Preston Lamentable Trag. Cambises B iij Ruff. I will giue thee sixpence to lie one night with thee. Mer. Gogs hart, slaue, doost thinke I am a sixpeny Jug?

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iiii The birthright of euerie sixe pennie slaue.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. i. 74 I am ioyned with no footlande rakers, no long-staffe sixpennie strikers.

1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice ii. sig. F The poorest peasant that euer was yoak'd to a sixpenny strumpet.

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iii. i. 34 Swaggering, suburbian roarers, Six-penny truckers.

1788 R. Burns Let. 21 Jan. (2001) I. 215 Lately I was a sixpenny private; and, God knows, a miserable soldier enough.

1878 H. H. Jackson Bits Trav. at Home 11 She didn't never want to see any o' them sixpenny towns agin.

1911 G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma Pref. p. xxvi The sixpenny doctor, with his low prices and quick turnover of patients, visibly makes much more than you.

1927 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 164 When I was a sixpenny doctor at Lambeth.

a. Costing, or priced at, sixpence.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [adjective] > specific prices

sixpenny1591

fourpenny1597

eight-penny1598

twelvepenny1609

six-shilling1631

ninepenny1632

seven1643

threepenny1698

sevenpenny1712

fivepenny1799

shilling gallery1801

1591 T. Nashe in Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Introd. An Asse is no great stateman..though he..look as demurely as a six~penny browne loafe.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. ii. 20 in Wks. II Bring him a sixe penny bottle of Ale.

1678 London Gaz. No. 1348/4 Eight pieces of Six-peny broad black taffaty Ribon.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 27 Apr. (1948) I. 252 I went to town in the sixpenny stage to-day.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 157 A shilling, to buy two six-penny loaves.

1904 Daily Chron. 11 Mar. 3/5 It is generally accepted..that the six~penny reprint has come to stay.

b. Bringing in sixpence; having a subscription of sixpence; selling articles at sixpence.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > profitable > bringing in specific amount

sixpenny1673

grossing1935

society > trade and finance > merchandise > [adjective] > sold at specific price

sixpenny1888

1673 Humours Town 29 To make the Voyage of the Strand..in search of some Six-penny Adventure.

1807 ‘P. Plymley’ Three More Lett. on Catholics iv. 21 I hear from some persons in Parliament, and from others in the sixpenny societies for debate, a great deal about the unalterable laws passed at the Revolution.

1888 Daily News 23 Nov. 7/2 A ‘sixpenny bazaar’, an emporium where any article on sale was to be had for a sixpence.

c. As n. A book (esp. a novel) or magazine published at sixpence.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > books sold at specific price

sixpenny1840

penny dreadful1861

dime novel1864

shilling dreadful1885

penny horrible1899

sevenpenny1907

1840 Knickerbocker 15 138 The larger newspaper establishments, satirically termed by their Lilliputian rivals, ‘the respectable sixpennies’.

1894 Literary World 30 Nov. 432/1 Has the knell of the solid Sixpennies been sounded?

d. As n. A cinema seat that costs sixpence.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun] > seat in

sixpenny1958

1958 Listener 4 Dec. 927/2 A small boy sitting in the sixpennies at the Bijou Cinema.

4. Amounting to, having the value of, sixpence. sixpenny bit or piece (now Historical), = sixpence n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > specific values

twopenny1532

sixpenny1592

fourpenny1597

threepenny1627

ninepenny1632

ten-pound1673

two-bit1802

four-figure1842

million-dollar1854

two-cent1859

thousand-guinea1894

thruppence1895

five-figure1971

six-figure1971

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence

tester1560

half-shilling1561

teston1577

mill sixpence1592

crinklepouch1593

sixpencea1616

testrila1616

piga1640

sice1660

Simon1699

sow's-baby1699

kick1725

cripple1785

grunter1785

tilbury1796

tizzy1804

tanner1811

bender1836

lord of the manor1839

snid1839

sprat1839

fiddler1846

sixpenny bit or piece1897

zac1898

sprasey1905

1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. B2 A sixpeny reward in signe of my superficial liberality.

1605 London Prodigall v. i. 72 Ile not let a sixepennie-purse escape me.

1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 99 This is done for the base Lucre of a Six-penny or Twelve-penny Fee.

1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 157 A sixpenny duty on the import.

1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 2) 335 Non-reading men play..for the lowest possible (sixpenny) points.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xxvi. 589 A piece of ground the size of a sixpenny piece.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 837 It is round or oval, the size of a threepenny or sixpenny piece.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sixpenny
释义	sixpennyadj.n. Brit. /ˈsɪkspəni/, U.S. /ˈsɪksˌpɛni/, /ˈsɪkspəni/ Etymology: six adj. 1. sixpenny nail n. a nail originally costing sixpence per hundred. (See penny n. 5.) Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > specific price or size of nail tenpenny nail1426 tenpenny nail1426 threepenny nail1429 fourpenny nail1481 sixpenny nail1486 fives1629 forty-penny nail1769 tenpenny1820 1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 67 For iijc x peny nayl to þe vyse, ii s. vj d.; Also for iiijc vj peny nayl, ij s.] 1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 16 cc vj peny nailes xij^d. 1494–5 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 43 Pro clauis voc' sixpeny nayle iijd. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 128 Rap at the wicket with the six~penny nayle of modesty. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 8 Four Penny, and Six Penny Nails, used for Pantile Lathing. 1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 309 A prepared Six-penny (or..a Ten-penny) Nail. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 119/1 A six~penny nail, 73 to the lb., 2½ inches long. 1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools App. 46 The force required to draw a ‘sixpenny nail’ of 73 to the lb. 2. Of persons: That may be hired for sixpence; earning no more than sixpence; worth only sixpence; paltry, petty. Also of things. Common as a depreciatory term c1590–1630. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > of people vile1340 light1529 sixpenny1561 single-soled1588 squirting1592 washya1631 insignificant1669 snotty-nosed1682 nerdy1960 nerkish1975 nerdish1980 1561 T. Preston Lamentable Trag. Cambises B iij Ruff. I will giue thee sixpence to lie one night with thee. Mer. Gogs hart, slaue, doost thinke I am a sixpeny Jug? 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iiii The birthright of euerie sixe pennie slaue. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. i. 74 I am ioyned with no footlande rakers, no long-staffe sixpennie strikers. View more context for this quotation 1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice ii. sig. F The poorest peasant that euer was yoak'd to a sixpenny strumpet. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iii. i. 34 Swaggering, suburbian roarers, Six-penny truckers. 1788 R. Burns Let. 21 Jan. (2001) I. 215 Lately I was a sixpenny private; and, God knows, a miserable soldier enough. 1878 H. H. Jackson Bits Trav. at Home 11 She didn't never want to see any o' them sixpenny towns agin. 1911 G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma Pref. p. xxvi The sixpenny doctor, with his low prices and quick turnover of patients, visibly makes much more than you. 1927 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 164 When I was a sixpenny doctor at Lambeth. 3. a. Costing, or priced at, sixpence. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [adjective] > specific prices sixpenny1591 fourpenny1597 eight-penny1598 twelvepenny1609 six-shilling1631 ninepenny1632 seven1643 threepenny1698 sevenpenny1712 fivepenny1799 shilling gallery1801 1591 T. Nashe in Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Introd. An Asse is no great stateman..though he..look as demurely as a six~penny browne loafe. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. ii. 20 in Wks. II Bring him a sixe penny bottle of Ale. 1678 London Gaz. No. 1348/4 Eight pieces of Six-peny broad black taffaty Ribon. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 27 Apr. (1948) I. 252 I went to town in the sixpenny stage to-day. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 157 A shilling, to buy two six-penny loaves. 1904 Daily Chron. 11 Mar. 3/5 It is generally accepted..that the six~penny reprint has come to stay. b. Bringing in sixpence; having a subscription of sixpence; selling articles at sixpence. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > profitable > bringing in specific amount sixpenny1673 grossing1935 society > trade and finance > merchandise > [adjective] > sold at specific price sixpenny1888 1673 Humours Town 29 To make the Voyage of the Strand..in search of some Six-penny Adventure. 1807 ‘P. Plymley’ Three More Lett. on Catholics iv. 21 I hear from some persons in Parliament, and from others in the sixpenny societies for debate, a great deal about the unalterable laws passed at the Revolution. 1888 Daily News 23 Nov. 7/2 A ‘sixpenny bazaar’, an emporium where any article on sale was to be had for a sixpence. c. As n. A book (esp. a novel) or magazine published at sixpence. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > books sold at specific price sixpenny1840 penny dreadful1861 dime novel1864 shilling dreadful1885 penny horrible1899 sevenpenny1907 1840 Knickerbocker 15 138 The larger newspaper establishments, satirically termed by their Lilliputian rivals, ‘the respectable sixpennies’. 1894 Literary World 30 Nov. 432/1 Has the knell of the solid Sixpennies been sounded? d. As n. A cinema seat that costs sixpence. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun] > seat in sixpenny1958 1958 Listener 4 Dec. 927/2 A small boy sitting in the sixpennies at the Bijou Cinema. 4. Amounting to, having the value of, sixpence. sixpenny bit or piece (now Historical), = sixpence n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > specific values twopenny1532 sixpenny1592 fourpenny1597 threepenny1627 ninepenny1632 ten-pound1673 two-bit1802 four-figure1842 million-dollar1854 two-cent1859 thousand-guinea1894 thruppence1895 five-figure1971 six-figure1971 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence tester1560 half-shilling1561 teston1577 mill sixpence1592 crinklepouch1593 sixpencea1616 testrila1616 piga1640 sice1660 Simon1699 sow's-baby1699 kick1725 cripple1785 grunter1785 tilbury1796 tizzy1804 tanner1811 bender1836 lord of the manor1839 snid1839 sprat1839 fiddler1846 sixpenny bit or piece1897 zac1898 sprasey1905 1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. B2 A sixpeny reward in signe of my superficial liberality. 1605 London Prodigall v. i. 72 Ile not let a sixepennie-purse escape me. 1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 99 This is done for the base Lucre of a Six-penny or Twelve-penny Fee. 1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 157 A sixpenny duty on the import. 1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 2) 335 Non-reading men play..for the lowest possible (sixpenny) points. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xxvi. 589 A piece of ground the size of a sixpenny piece. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 837 It is round or oval, the size of a threepenny or sixpenny piece. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1486
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