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/ˈtʌp(ə)ns/ · noun
(UK, Ireland, informal, dated) Two pence (in pre- or post-decimalisation currency)..
Milk has gone up to tuppence ha’penny a pint.
In less than four days twenty-three men had paid their tuppences to Henery, who ’ad been made the seckitary.
‘Miss Brindle rich?’ said Aunt Maggie. ‘Bless you, she hasn’t tuppence to rub together.’
"Fucksticks!" When some smart-arse bastard gives me my comeuppance / "Fucksticks!" When it’s ages since I’ve seen a lady’s tuppence
The lady confided to the nurse helping her up off the examination couch, and told her “He put his hand up me funnel and made me tuppence bleed!”
Use tuppence when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tuppence means (UK, Ireland, informal, dated) Two pence (in pre- or post-decimalisation currency)..
Common synonyms include twopence.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Milk has gone up to tuppence ha’penny a pint.
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