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English
Etymology
From nine + pence.
Noun
ninepence (plural ninepences)
- (obsolete, British) A former British silver coin, worth nine old pennies.
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. , London: John Martyn and Henry Herringman, , published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A R Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:His wits were sent him for a token, \ But in the carriage crack'd and broken. \ Like commendation nine-pence, crookt \ With—to and from my love—it lookt.
- (obsolete, British) Nine old pennies.
1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 137:I had sold it to her that morning for ninepence; the real price was a shilling, but it was somewhat shopworn.
- (obsolete, New England) A Spanish real, valued at twelve and a half cents.
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