unpennied

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adjective

penniless

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Meanings

adjectiveunpennied (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoletepenniless

    […] the delight of the early gardener, who transports his smoking cabbages by break of day from Hammersmith to Covent-garden's famed piazzas — the delight, and, oh I fear, too often the envy, of the unpennied sweep.

    1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC

Origin

From un- + penny + -ed.

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APA

unpennied. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpennied

MLA

“unpennied.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpennied. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unpennied,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpennied.

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