TWOPENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twopence mean? 

• TWOPENCE (noun)
  The noun TWOPENCE has 1 sense:

1. a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies

  Familiarity information: TWOPENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWOPENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

tuppence; twopence

Hypernyms ("twopence" is a kind of...):

coin (a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money)

 Context examples 

It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Oh, my eyes and limbs!” he then cried, peeping hideously out of the shop, after a long pause, “will you go for twopence more?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The caul was won, I recollect, by an old lady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from it the stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopence halfpenny short—as it took an immense time and a great waste of arithmetic, to endeavour without any effect to prove to her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half-and-half, two fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but whose biographies I was compelled to listen to.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Though harrowing to myself to mention, the alienation of Mr. Micawber (formerly so domesticated) from his wife and family, is the cause of my addressing my unhappy appeal to Mr. Traddles, and soliciting his best indulgence. Mr. T. can form no adequate idea of the change in Mr. Micawber's conduct, of his wildness, of his violence. It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect. Scarcely a day passes, I assure Mr. Traddles, on which some paroxysm does not take place. Mr. T. will not require me to depict my feelings, when I inform him that I have become accustomed to hear Mr. Micawber assert that he has sold himself to the D. Mystery and secrecy have long been his principal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence. The slightest provocation, even being asked if there is anything he would prefer for dinner, causes him to express a wish for a separation. Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy “lemon-stunners”—a local sweetmeat—he presented an oyster-knife at the twins!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)