halfpenny

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halfpenny englannista suomeksi

(non-gloss) form (m).
(senseid) A discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny (old or new).

(synonyms)

(RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)
(RQ:Irving Goldsmith)
(quote-book)|location2=London|publisher2=Trübner|Trübner & Co.,(nb...)|year2=1886|volume_plain2=part III|page2=571|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=YhwAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA571|oclc2=5148914|passage=Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, / Please to put a penny in the old man's hat, / If you haven't got a penny, a halfpenny will do, / If you haven't got a halfpenny—God bless you!
A similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland.
(non-gloss).
An amount of money that the English (later British) coin was worth.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
(RQ:Goldsmith Citizen of the World)
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair) The jokes were frightful, and merciless against him. (..) Another would set a sum—"If a pound of mutton-candles cost sevenpence-halfpenny, how much must Dobbin cost?" and a roar would follow from all the circle of young knaves, usher and all, who rightly considered that the selling of goods by retail is a shameful and infamous practice, meriting the contempt and scorn of all real gentlemen.
An amount of money that the Irish or Scottish coin was worth.
A stamp worth half of one penny.
A usually semicircular earmark made in the ear of a livestock animal.
A small piece; a fragment.
(RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q)