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threepenny bit en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈθɹʌpəni bɪt/ (UK)
Meanings
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(historical) A former (pre-decimalisation) British or Irish coin worth three old pennies.
All day long he worked, cutting out pennies and shillings and half-crowns and threepenny-bits.
1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “East Wind”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, pages 3–4:
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(Cockney, slang) A woman's breast; a tit.
All these skinny modern chicks with their perky threepenny bits do nothing for me.
1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 86:
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Synonyms
threepence · thruppence