tuppence

plural tuppences

1. IrelandUKcountabledatedinformaluncountableTwo pence (in pre- or post-decimalisation currency).

   Milk has gone up to tuppence ha’penny a pint.

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   In less than four days twenty-three men had paid their tuppences to Henery, who ’ad been made the seckitary.

   1909, W. W. Jacobs, “Prize Money,”, in Sailor's Knots

   ‘Miss Brindle rich?’ said Aunt Maggie. ‘Bless you, she hasn’t tuppence to rub together.’

   1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 11

2. IrelandUKabbreviationcountableellipsisidiomaticuncountableEllipsis of tuppence worth (“one’s opinion”).
3. IrelandUKchildishcountableeuphemisticslanguncountableusuallyThe vulva or vagina.

   "Fucksticks!" When some smart-arse bastard gives me my comeuppance / "Fucksticks!" When it’s ages since I’ve seen a lady’s tuppence

   2011, Kunt and the Gang, Fucksticks (song)

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   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!”

   2012, Richard Johns, Diagnosis of the Soul: The Long Road to the Beginning