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threepenny
CIDE DICTIONARY
threepenny, a.
Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
threepenny, adj. Brit. costing three pence, esp. before decimalization.
Idiom
threepenny bit hist. a former coin worth three old pence.
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