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Synonyms for pennies
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pen-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛn i |
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Définition of pennies
Origin :- Old English pening, penig, Northumbrian penning "penny," from Proto-Germanic *panninggaz (cf. Old Norse penningr, Swedish pänning, Danish penge, Old Frisian panning, Old Saxon pending, Middle Dutch pennic, Dutch penning, Old High German pfenning, German Pfennig, not recorded in Gothic, where skatts is used instead), of unknown origin.
- Offa's reformed coinage on light, broad flans is likely to have begun c.760-5 in London, with an awareness of developments in Francia and East Anglia. ... The broad flan penny established by Offa remained the principal denomination, with only minor changes, until the fourteenth century. [Anna Gannon, "The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage," Oxford, 2003]
- The English coin was originally set at one-twelfth of a shilling and was of silver, later copper, then bronze. There are two plural forms: pennies of individual coins, pence collectively. In translations it rendered various foreign coins of small denomination, especially Latin denarius, whence comes its abbreviation d.
- As American English colloquial for cent, it is recorded from 1889. Penny-a-liner "writer for a journal or newspaper" is attested from 1834. Penny dreadful "cheap and gory fiction" dates from c.1870. Phrase penny-wise and pound-foolish is recorded from c.1600. Penny-pincher "miserly person" is recorded from 1906 (as an adjective penny-pinching is recorded from 1858, American English). Penny loafers attested from 1960.
- As in red cent : noun insignificant value
- As in change : noun smaller currency in exchange for larger
- A great, rich, busy nation cannot stop to see who grabs its pennies.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
- Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- He went on saving his pennies just as he had done before he bought the boat.
- Extract from : « Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad » by Various
- Here you have as many times ten pennies as there are weeks in the year.
- Extract from : « Heidi » by Johanna Spyri
- I showed her the way yesterday and she promised to give me forty pennies.
- Extract from : « Heidi » by Johanna Spyri
- “Cent” or “pennies” for “penny” is satisfactory, but “money” is not.
- Extract from : « The Measurement of Intelligence » by Lewis Madison Terman
- The Hof-rath put his hand in his pocket and pulled out some pennies.
- Extract from : « A Jolly Fellowship » by Frank R. Stockton
- The dollars are not half so essential to success as the pennies.
- Extract from : « Hidden Treasures » by Harry A. Lewis
- She made first of all a stack of her half-pennies, and then of her pennies.
- Extract from : « An Australian Lassie » by Lilian Turner
- There were nine half-pennies, three pennies, a threepenny bit and a sixpence.
- Extract from : « An Australian Lassie » by Lilian Turner
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