(division of a pound) Borrowed from English penny. IPA(key): /pɛ.ni/ ~ /pe.ni/ penny m (plural pennys) penny “penny”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé...
two-penny-half-penny, twopenny-ha'penny IPA(key): /ˌtʌp(ə)ni ˈheɪp(ə)ni/ twopenny-halfpenny (not comparable) (dated, informal) Petty, insignificant. 1899...
From healf (“half”) + peniġ (“penny”) + weorþ (“worth”) IPA(key): /ˈxæ͜ɑlf.pe.nij.we͜orθ/, [ˈhæ͜ɑɫf.pe.nij.we͜orˠθ] healfpeniġweorþ n costing or worth...
either from the late-Old English halpenige or from half + peni. By surface analysis, half + penny and continually reinforced by it. IPA(key): /ˈheɪp(ə)ni/...
asked for thirty pennies sterling (two and a half shillings), when he is really being asked for thirty pennies Scots (two and a half pennies sterling). 1964...
See also: half-a-dozen half-a-dozen half a dozen Six (6); often used approximatively. 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings: Anstruther...
Brawl, and put a pretty penny into your pocket, Mr. Pendennis. 1860, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Tom’s ‘First Half’”, in The Mill on the...
(plural sixteenpenny nails) (dated) A relatively large nail, three and one-half inches (9 centimeters) in length. fourpenny nail sixpenny nail eightpenny...