Meaning of Penny | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.
2. A surname.
3. In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.
   historical
4. A place name, presumably all taken from the surname:
5. An unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States.
6. In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
7. In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
   historical
8. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky.
9. In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.
10. A small community on the Fraser River in central British Columbia, Canada.
11. In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
12. A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
13. Money in general.

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Examples

“Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.”

“We had not proceeded very far across the south cantilever when we saw a penny lying beside the track, and another a short distance further on. We were to find several more pennies, and some half-pennies, before we reached the north shore. Inspector Bell explained that many passengers try to throw a coin into the Forth, for "good luck," while trains are crossing the bridge.”

“However he lost out, as other business interests whom he had alienated by his efforts to squeeze every penny of profit from the canal, supported the construction of the railway.”

“Holy shit! A hundred and eleven pennies! At that point, that dog had more Lincoln in him than Mary Todd.”

“A Treasury spokesperson said the government made its final order of penny blanks this month, and the United States Mint will continue to manufacture pennies only as long as an inventory of penny blanks exists.”

“to turn an honest penny”

“What penny hath Rome borne, / What men provided, what munition sent?”

“Max Cross cut a fine figure as the Colonel, Percy Penny was a somewhat unducal Duke, while Edgar McHale gave a particularly good rendering of the Major.”

““Because these racist bigots try to prevent us from standing up for our baby, our boy, he should be afforded the same rights that Kyle Rittenhouse had, Daniel Penny and all the people who have claimed whatever their defense was – he should be afforded the same right,” Alexander said later in the press conference.”

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