Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(colloquial, dated) Something that makes money; a financially successful affair..
thou and thy acts become the posies for hospitals; when thy name shall be written upon conduits, and thy deeds played i' thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be called their get-penny.
if a pack of hackney scribblers shall attack me only by way of a get-penny, I shall not be provoked to answer them
Use get-penny when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Get-penny means (colloquial, dated) Something that makes money; a financially successful affair..
Common synonyms include money-spinner, moneymaker.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
thou and thy acts become the posies for hospitals; when thy name shall be written upon conduits, and thy deeds played i' thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be called their get-penny.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.