tuppence
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Is tuppence a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (UK, Ireland, informal, dated) Two pence (in pre- or post-decimalisation currency).Examples: "Milk has gone up to tuppence ha’penny a pint."; "In less than four days twenty-three men had paid their tuppences to Henery, who ’ad been made the seckitary."; "‘Miss Brindle rich?’ said Aunt Maggie. ‘Bless you, she hasn’t tuppence to rub together.’"IrelandUKcountabledatedinformaluncountable
2. (UK, Ireland, idiomatic) Ellipsis of tuppence worth (“one’s opinion”).IrelandUKabbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisidiomaticuncountable
3. (UK, Ireland, slang, euphemistic, usually childish) The vulva or vagina.Examples: ""Fucksticks!" When some smart-arse bastard gives me my comeuppance / "Fucksticks!" When it’s ages since I’ve seen a lady’s tuppence"; "The lady confided to the nurse helping her up off the examination couch, and told her “He put his hand up me funnel and made me tuppence bleed!”"IrelandUKchildishcountableeuphemisticslanguncountableusually
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