Meanings (ES + gloss)
penique
In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.
Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him…
We had not proceeded very far across the south cantilever when we saw a penny lying beside the track, and another a short distance further on. We were to find several more pennies,…
penique
In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
Phrases
God's pennyKissi pennyPenny BlackPeter's pennyRome-pennya bad penny always comes backa bad penny always turns upa penny saved is a penny earneda penny saved is a penny gaineda pound to a pennybad pennybright as a new pennycatchpennyclean as a new pennydead man's pennydeath pennyeight penny naileight-penny naileighteenpennyeightpennyeightpenny nailelevenpennyfair pennyfifteenpennyfine pennyfivepennyfortypennyfour penny nailfour-penny nailfourpennyfourpenny nailfourteenpennyget-pennyhearth-pennyin for a penny, in for a poundjam pennylickpennyluck pennymegapennyninepenny