fourpence
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9.9
An old English coin worth four pennies used before Britain changed to decimal money
- noun
- /ˈfɔːpəns/
- Archaic
:
cuatro peniques
- I'll clean your boots for fourpence.
Examples
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That will be five and fourpence extra, sir.
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206 pounds, seven and fourpence, halfpenny.
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So we had to wrap the notes in carbon paper and send them home, then cash them for fourpence when we got back.
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Fourpence for a Christmas pudding!
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Well, you're fourpence better off than if I hadn't caught it.
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- That's fourpence, then.
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Suppose I go into a cheesemonger's shop and buy five thousand cheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each.
Fiction book (2000) -
That will be five and fourpence extra, sir.
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I'll clean your boots for fourpence.
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Fourpence for a Christmas pudding!
Synonyms
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9.9
An old English silver coin worth four pennies
is the same value coin but noted for use up to decimalization
Surface Forms
fourpence singular
fourpences plural
Morphology
Etymology
The word fourpence is simply four + pence, meaning 'four pennies'. It was a small silver coin worth four pennies in Britain, so the word describes that old coin.