ha'penny
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Contraction of halfpenny.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈheɪpni/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]ha'penny (plural ha'pennies or ha'pence)
- (historical, Ireland, British) A halfpenny; a former British and Irish coin.
- 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian[1]:
- The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.
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