yennep

plural yenneps · alternative yenap

1. obsoletecostermongersA penny.

   Now what are you two squabblin' over? Oh! Jack's got a yennep, and Jim's iookin' shirty.

   1882, George MacDonald, “If I Had a Father”, in Stephen Archer and Other Strange Tales, act 2

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   To discover the kind of entertainment, a lad near me and my companion was asked "if there was any flash dancing." With a knowing wink the boy answered "Lots! show their legs and all, prime!" and immediately the boy followed up this information by a request for a "yennep" to get a "tib of occabot."

   1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, Of the "Penny Gaff", page 41

   "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."

   1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows