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单词 twopenny
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twopenny

/ˈtʌp(ə)ni /
(also tuppenny)
adjective [attributive] British
Costing or worth two pence, especially before decimalization (1971).West saw the potential of the new craze and responded by producing sheets of characters, which he sold at ‘a penny plain and twopenny coloured’: ‘juvenile drama’ was born....
  • ‘I don't give a tuppenny - criticism to me is like water off a duck's back, ‘he said.’
  • Bill goes off five mornings a week to Redbrick University exactly as he went to Back Street Council School and Drabtown Municipal School for Boys - and he goes on his bicycle, to save the twopenny tram fare.
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