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"Terms with Volapük translations", "Terms with Welsh translations", "en:Coins", "en:Currencies"], "derived": [{"word": "a bad penny always comes back"}, {"word": "a bad penny always turns up"}, {"word": "a penny saved is a penny earned"}, {"word": "a penny saved is a penny gained"}, {"word": "a pound to a penny"}, {"word": "bad penny"}, {"word": "bright as a new penny"}, {"word": "clean as a new penny"}, {"word": "eightpenny nail"}, {"word": "eight penny nail"}, {"word": "eight-penny nail"}, {"word": "four-penny nail"}, {"word": "fourpenny nail"}, {"word": "four penny nail"}, {"word": "get-penny"}, {"word": "God's penny"}, {"word": "hearth-penny"}, {"word": "in for a penny, in for a pound"}, {"word": "jam penny"}, {"word": "luck penny"}, {"word": "pence"}, {"word": "penniless"}, {"word": "penny-a-line"}, {"word": "penny-a-liner"}, {"word": "penny ante"}, {"word": "penny-ante"}, {"word": "penny arcade"}, {"word": "penny bank"}, {"word": "Penny Black"}, {"word": "penny bun"}, {"word": "penny candy"}, {"word": "penny chew"}, {"word": "penny dog"}, {"word": "penny dreadful"}, {"word": "penny-dreadfulish"}, {"word": "penny-dreadfulism"}, {"word": "penny fall"}, {"word": "penny farthing"}, {"word": "penny-farthing"}, {"word": "penny-father"}, {"word": "penny for one's thoughts"}, {"word": "penny for them"}, {"word": "penny for your thoughts"}, {"word": "penny gaff"}, {"word": "penny-gaff"}, {"word": "penny gaffe"}, {"word": "penny grass"}, {"word": "penny-grass"}, {"word": "penny in the fusebox"}, {"word": "penny-in-the-slot machine"}, {"word": "penny loafer"}, {"word": "penny mail"}, {"word": "penny packet"}, {"word": "penny-pig"}, {"word": "penny-pinch"}, {"word": "penny pincher"}, {"word": "penny-pincher"}, {"word": "penny-pinching"}, {"word": "penny post"}, {"word": "penny pusher"}, {"word": "penny slot"}, {"word": "penny starver"}, {"word": "penny sterling"}, {"word": "penny stock"}, {"word": "penny sweet"}, {"word": "penny tray"}, {"word": "penny university"}, {"word": "penny wedding"}, {"word": "penny-wedding"}, {"word": "penny weed"}, {"word": "penny whip"}, {"word": "penny whistle"}, {"word": "penny wisdom"}, {"word": "penny-wise"}, {"word": "penny wise and pound foolish"}, {"word": "penny-wise and pound-foolish"}, {"word": "pennywort"}, {"word": "Peter's penny"}, {"word": "pitchpenny"}, {"word": "pretty penny"}, {"word": "push-penny"}, {"word": "red penny"}, {"word": "Rome-penny"}, {"word": "scrape-penny"}, {"word": "six-penny nail"}, {"word": "sixpenny nail"}, {"word": "six penny nail"}, {"word": "sixteen-penny nail"}, {"word": "sixteen penny nail"}, {"word": "spear-penny"}, {"word": "spear penny"}, {"word": "spend a penny"}, {"word": "swarf-penny"}, {"word": "ten a penny"}, {"word": "tenpenny nail"}, {"word": "ten penny nail"}, {"word": "ten-penny nail"}, {"word": "the bad penny always comes back"}, {"word": "the bad penny always turns up"}, {"word": "the penny drops"}, {"word": "third penny"}, {"word": "tin penny"}, {"word": "toffee penny"}, {"word": "true-penny"}, {"word": "turn an honest penny"}, {"word": "twelve-penny nail"}, {"word": "twelve penny nail"}, {"word": "two a penny"}, {"word": "two ha'pennies for a penny"}, {"word": "watch the pennies"}, {"word": "wheat penny"}, {"word": "worth every penny"}], "descendants": [{"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "bg", "2": "пени", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Bulgarian: пени (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Bulgarian: пени (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "cs", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Czech: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Czech: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nl", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Dutch: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Dutch: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "fi", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Finnish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Finnish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "fr", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ French: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ French: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "de", "2": "Penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ German: Penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ German: Penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "he", "2": "פֶּנִי", "bor": "1", "tr": "péni"}, "expansion": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hi", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hu", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hungarian: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hungarian: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ja", "2": "ペニー", "bor": "1", "tr": "penī"}, "expansion": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ko", "2": "페니", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mk", "2": "пе́ни", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ms", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Malay: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Malay: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mi", "2": "pene", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Maori: pene", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Maori: pene"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mr", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nrf", "2": "pénîn", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norman: pénîn", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Norman: pénîn"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "no", "2": "-", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norwegian:", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Norwegian:"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nb", "2": "penny"}, "expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "Norwegian Bokmål: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nn", "2": "penny"}, "expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "Norwegian Nynorsk: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "pt", "2": "pêni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Portuguese: pêni", "name": "desc"}, {"args": {"1": "Brazil"}, "expansion": "(Brazil)", "name": "q"}, {"args": {"1": "Portugal"}, "expansion": "(Portugal)", "name": "q"}], "text": "→ Portuguese: pêni (Brazil), péni (Portugal)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ru", "2": "пе́нни", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Russian: пе́нни (pénni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Russian: пе́нни (pénni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "sw", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swahili: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swahili: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "sv", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swedish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swedish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "th", "2": "เพนนี", "bor": "1", "tr": "peen-nii"}, "expansion": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "tr", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Turkish: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Turkish: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ug", "2": "پەنى", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "vo", "2": "pänid", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Volapük: pänid", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Volapük: pänid"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "penny"}, "expansion": "Middle English penny", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "peniġ"}, "expansion": "Old English peniġ", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*panning"}, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *panning", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*panningaz"}, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *panningaz", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "pfennig", "3": "fening"}, "expansion": "Doublet of pfennig and fening", "name": "doublet"}], "etymology_text": "From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.", "forms": [{"form": "pennies", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "pence", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "pens", "tags": ["obsolete", "plural"]}], "head_templates": [{"args": {"1": "+", "2": "pence", "3": "pens", "pl3qual": "obsolete"}, "expansion": "penny (plural pennies or pence or (obsolete) pens)", "name": "en-noun"}], "hyphenation": ["pen‧ny"], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [{"word": "pence § Descendants"}], "senses": [{"categories": ["English terms with historical senses", "English terms with quotations"], "examples": [{"ref": "1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:", "text": "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 shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:", "text": "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, and some half-pennies, before we reached the north shore. Inspector Bell explained that many passengers try to throw a coin into the Forth, for \"good luck,\" while trains are crossing the bridge.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["In the United Kingdom and Ireland, 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."], "links": [["pound sterling", "pound sterling"], ["decimalisation", "decimalisation"], ["coin", "coin"], ["d", "d"]], "raw_glosses": ["(historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, 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."], "tags": ["historical"]}, {"glosses": ["In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p."], "links": [["coin", "coin"], ["p", "p"]]}, {"categories": ["English terms with historical senses"], "glosses": ["In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p."], "links": [["euro", "euro"], ["p", "p"]], "raw_glosses": ["(historical) In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p."], "tags": ["historical"]}, {"categories": ["English terms with quotations"], "examples": [{"ref": "2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:", "text": "Holy shit! A hundred and eleven pennies! At that point, that dog had more Lincoln in him than Mary Todd.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢."], "links": [["cent", "cent"], ["dollar", "dollar"], ["¢", "¢"]]}, {"glosses": ["In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin."], "links": [["small", "small"], ["denomination", "denomination"], ["copper", "copper"], ["brass", "brass"], ["coin", "coin"]]}, {"glosses": ["A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d."], "links": [["nail", "nail"], ["d", "d"]]}, {"categories": ["English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples"], "examples": [{"text": "to turn an honest penny", "type": "example"}, {"ref": "c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:", "text": "What penny hath Rome borne, / What men provided, what munition sent?", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["Money in general."]}], "sounds": [{"ipa": "/ˈpɛni/", "tags": ["General-American", "Received-Pronunciation"]}, {"audio": "En-us-penny.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0b/En-us-penny.ogg/En-us-penny.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/En-us-penny.ogg"}, {"ipa": "/ˈpɪni/", "tags": ["pin-pen-merger"]}, {"ipa": "/pəni/", "note": "In compounds like twopenny, dated"}, {"rhymes": "-ɛni"}], "synonyms": [{"word": "old penny"}, {"sense": "new penny (old-fashioned)", "word": "1⁄100 of a pound sterling"}, {"sense": "one-cent coin or its value", "word": "cent"}, {"word": "peny"}, {"word": "penie"}, {"tags": ["obsolete"], "word": "pennie"}], "translations": [{"code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пени"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "pingin"}, {"code": "luy", "lang": "Luhya", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "litong'olo"}, {"code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "péni", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́ни"}, {"code": "ms", "lang": "Malay", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "mr", "lang": "Marathi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "nrf", "lang": "Norman", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pénîn"}, {"code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pêni"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pénni", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́нни"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "пенс"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penique"}, {"code": "sw", "lang": "Swahili", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "vo", "lang": "Volapük", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "pänid"}, {"code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "ceiniog"}, {"code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "bins", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "بِنْس"}, {"code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пени"}, {"code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "biànshì", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "便士"}, {"code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "cent"}, {"code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "penco"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "Penny"}, {"code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "péni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "פֶּנִי"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine", "plural"], "word": "पेन्स"}, {"code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "pingin"}, {"code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine", "plural"], "word": "pinginí"}, {"code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine", "plural"], "word": "pingneacha"}, {"code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["Cois-Fharraige", "feminine", "plural"], "word": "pingineacha"}, {"code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "ペニー"}, {"code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "페니"}, {"code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "péni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́ни"}, {"code": "ms", "lang": "Malay", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "kapa"}, {"code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "pene"}, {"code": "mr", "lang": "Marathi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "mr", "lang": "Marathi", "roman": "pensa", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "पेन्स"}, {"code": "nrf", "lang": "Norman", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pénîn"}, {"code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pêni (B)"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "péni (P)"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pénni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́нни"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "пенс"}, {"code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "sgillinn"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penique"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "roman": "peen-nii", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "เพนนี"}, {"code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنى"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنس"}, {"code": "vo", "lang": "Volapük", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "pänid"}, {"code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "ceiniog"}], "word": "penny"}
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penny"}, {"word": "true-penny"}, {"word": "turn an honest penny"}, {"word": "twelve-penny nail"}, {"word": "twelve penny nail"}, {"word": "two a penny"}, {"word": "two ha'pennies for a penny"}, {"word": "watch the pennies"}, {"word": "wheat penny"}, {"word": "worth every penny"}], "descendants": [{"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "bg", "2": "пени", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Bulgarian: пени (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Bulgarian: пени (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "cs", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Czech: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Czech: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nl", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Dutch: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Dutch: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "fi", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Finnish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Finnish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "fr", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ French: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ French: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "de", "2": "Penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ German: Penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ German: Penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "he", "2": "פֶּנִי", "bor": "1", "tr": "péni"}, "expansion": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hi", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hu", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hungarian: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hungarian: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ja", "2": "ペニー", "bor": "1", "tr": "penī"}, "expansion": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ko", "2": "페니", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mk", "2": "пе́ни", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ms", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Malay: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Malay: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mi", "2": "pene", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Maori: pene", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Maori: pene"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mr", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nrf", "2": "pénîn", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norman: pénîn", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Norman: pénîn"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "no", "2": "-", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norwegian:", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ 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[{"args": {"1": "sv", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swedish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swedish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "th", "2": "เพนนี", "bor": "1", "tr": "peen-nii"}, "expansion": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "tr", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Turkish: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Turkish: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ug", "2": "پەنى", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "vo", "2": "pänid", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Volapük: pänid", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Volapük: pänid"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "penny"}, "expansion": "Middle English penny", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "peniġ"}, "expansion": "Old English peniġ", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*panning"}, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *panning", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*panningaz"}, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *panningaz", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "pfennig", "3": "fening"}, "expansion": "Doublet of pfennig and fening", "name": "doublet"}], "etymology_text": "From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). 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It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:", "text": "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, and some half-pennies, before we reached the north shore. Inspector Bell explained that many passengers try to throw a coin into the Forth, for \"good luck,\" while trains are crossing the bridge.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. 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"nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pêni (B)"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "péni (P)"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pénni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́нни"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "пенс"}, {"code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "sgillinn"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penique"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", 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{"word": "toffee penny"}, {"word": "true-penny"}, {"word": "turn an honest penny"}, {"word": "twelve-penny nail"}, {"word": "twelve penny nail"}, {"word": "two a penny"}, {"word": "two ha'pennies for a penny"}, {"word": "watch the pennies"}, {"word": "wheat penny"}, {"word": "worth every penny"}], "descendants": [{"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "bg", "2": "пени", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Bulgarian: пени (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Bulgarian: пени (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "cs", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Czech: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Czech: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nl", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Dutch: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Dutch: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "fi", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Finnish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Finnish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "fr", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ French: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ French: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "de", "2": "Penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ German: Penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ German: Penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "he", "2": "פֶּנִי", "bor": "1", "tr": "péni"}, "expansion": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hi", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hu", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hungarian: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hungarian: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ja", "2": "ペニー", "bor": "1", "tr": "penī"}, "expansion": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ko", "2": "페니", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mk", "2": "пе́ни", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ms", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Malay: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Malay: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mi", "2": "pene", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Maori: pene", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Maori: pene"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mr", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nrf", "2": "pénîn", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norman: pénîn", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Norman: pénîn"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "no", "2": "-", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norwegian:", "name": 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{"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "sv", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swedish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swedish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "th", "2": "เพนนี", "bor": "1", "tr": "peen-nii"}, "expansion": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "tr", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Turkish: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Turkish: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ug", "2": "پەنى", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "vo", "2": "pänid", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Volapük: pänid", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Volapük: pänid"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "penny"}, "expansion": "Middle English penny", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "peniġ"}, "expansion": "Old English peniġ", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*panning"}, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *panning", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*panningaz"}, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *panningaz", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "pfennig", "3": "fening"}, "expansion": "Doublet of pfennig and fening", "name": "doublet"}], "etymology_text": "From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). 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"nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pêni (B)"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "péni (P)"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pénni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́нни"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "пенс"}, {"code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "sgillinn"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penique"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "roman": "peen-nii", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "เพนนี"}, {"code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنى"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنس"}, {"code": "vo", "lang": "Volapük", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "pänid"}, {"code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "ceiniog"}], "word": "penny"}
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"expansion": "→ French: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ French: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "de", "2": "Penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ German: Penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ German: Penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "he", "2": "פֶּנִי", "bor": "1", "tr": "péni"}, "expansion": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hi", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hu", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hungarian: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hungarian: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ja", "2": "ペニー", "bor": "1", "tr": "penī"}, "expansion": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ko", "2": "페니", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": 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[{"args": {"1": "sv", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swedish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swedish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "th", "2": "เพนนี", "bor": "1", "tr": "peen-nii"}, "expansion": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "tr", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Turkish: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Turkish: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ug", "2": "پەنى", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "vo", "2": "pänid", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Volapük: pänid", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Volapük: pänid"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "penny"}, "expansion": "Middle English penny", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "peniġ"}, "expansion": "Old English peniġ", 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"In compounds like twopenny, dated"}, {"rhymes": "-ɛni"}], "synonyms": [{"word": "old penny"}, {"sense": "new penny (old-fashioned)", "word": "1⁄100 of a pound sterling"}, {"sense": "one-cent coin or its value", "word": "cent"}, {"word": "peny"}, {"word": "penie"}, {"tags": ["obsolete"], "word": "pennie"}], "translations": [{"code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пени"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "pingin"}, {"code": "luy", "lang": "Luhya", 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"lang": "Russian", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "пенс"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penique"}, {"code": "sw", "lang": "Swahili", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "vo", "lang": "Volapük", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "pänid"}, {"code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "ceiniog"}, {"code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "bins", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "بِنْس"}, {"code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пени"}, {"code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "biànshì", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "便士"}, {"code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "cent"}, {"code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "penco"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "Penny"}, {"code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "péni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "פֶּנִי"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/100 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or British pound", "word": "ペニー"}, {"code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "페니"}, {"code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "péni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́ни"}, {"code": "ms", "lang": "Malay", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "kapa"}, {"code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "pene"}, {"code": "mr", "lang": "Marathi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "mr", "lang": "Marathi", "roman": "pensa", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "पेन्स"}, {"code": "nrf", "lang": "Norman", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pénîn"}, {"code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pêni (B)"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "péni (P)"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pénni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́нни"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "пенс"}, {"code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "sgillinn"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penique"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "roman": "peen-nii", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "เพนนี"}, {"code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنى"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنس"}, {"code": "vo", "lang": "Volapük", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "pänid"}, {"code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "ceiniog"}], "word": "penny"}
penny (English noun)
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"expansion": "→ French: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ French: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "de", "2": "Penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ German: Penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ German: Penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "he", "2": "פֶּנִי", "bor": "1", "tr": "péni"}, "expansion": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hi", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hu", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hungarian: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hungarian: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ja", "2": "ペニー", "bor": "1", "tr": "penī"}, "expansion": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ko", "2": "페니", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mk", "2": "пе́ни", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ms", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Malay: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Malay: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mi", "2": "pene", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Maori: pene", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Maori: pene"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mr", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nrf", "2": "pénîn", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norman: pénîn", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Norman: pénîn"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "no", "2": "-", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norwegian:", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ 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[{"args": {"1": "sv", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swedish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swedish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "th", "2": "เพนนี", "bor": "1", "tr": "peen-nii"}, "expansion": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "tr", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Turkish: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Turkish: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ug", "2": "پەنى", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "vo", "2": "pänid", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Volapük: pänid", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Volapük: pänid"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "penny"}, "expansion": "Middle English penny", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "peniġ"}, "expansion": "Old English peniġ", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*panning"}, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *panning", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*panningaz"}, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *panningaz", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "pfennig", "3": "fening"}, "expansion": "Doublet of pfennig and fening", "name": "doublet"}], "etymology_text": "From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). 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"In compounds like twopenny, dated"}, {"rhymes": "-ɛni"}], "synonyms": [{"word": "old penny"}, {"sense": "new penny (old-fashioned)", "word": "1⁄100 of a pound sterling"}, {"sense": "one-cent coin or its value", "word": "cent"}, {"word": "peny"}, {"word": "penie"}, {"tags": ["obsolete"], "word": "pennie"}], "translations": [{"code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пени"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "pingin"}, {"code": "luy", "lang": "Luhya", 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"nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pêni (B)"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "péni (P)"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pénni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́нни"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "пенс"}, {"code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "sgillinn"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penique"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "roman": "peen-nii", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "เพนนี"}, {"code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنى"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنس"}, {"code": "vo", "lang": "Volapük", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "pänid"}, {"code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "ceiniog"}], "word": "penny"}
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"expansion": "→ French: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ French: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "de", "2": "Penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ German: Penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ German: Penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "he", "2": "פֶּנִי", "bor": "1", "tr": "péni"}, "expansion": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hi", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hu", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hungarian: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hungarian: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ja", "2": "ペニー", "bor": "1", "tr": "penī"}, "expansion": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ko", "2": "페니", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": 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[{"args": {"1": "sv", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swedish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swedish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "th", "2": "เพนนี", "bor": "1", "tr": "peen-nii"}, "expansion": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "tr", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Turkish: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Turkish: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ug", "2": "پەنى", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "vo", "2": "pänid", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Volapük: pänid", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Volapük: pänid"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "penny"}, "expansion": "Middle English penny", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "peniġ"}, "expansion": "Old English peniġ", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*panning"}, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *panning", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*panningaz"}, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *panningaz", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "pfennig", "3": "fening"}, "expansion": "Doublet of pfennig and fening", "name": "doublet"}], "etymology_text": "From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.", "forms": [{"form": "pennies", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "pence", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "pens", "tags": ["obsolete", "plural"]}], "head_templates": [{"args": {"1": "+", "2": "pence", "3": "pens", "pl3qual": "obsolete"}, "expansion": "penny (plural pennies or pence or (obsolete) pens)", "name": "en-noun"}], "hyphenation": ["pen‧ny"], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [{"word": "pence § Descendants"}], "senses": [{"categories": ["English terms with historical senses", "English terms with quotations"], "examples": [{"ref": "1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:", "text": "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 shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:", "text": "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, and some half-pennies, before we reached the north shore. Inspector Bell explained that many passengers try to throw a coin into the Forth, for \"good luck,\" while trains are crossing the bridge.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. 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"In compounds like twopenny, dated"}, {"rhymes": "-ɛni"}], "synonyms": [{"word": "old penny"}, {"sense": "new penny (old-fashioned)", "word": "1⁄100 of a pound sterling"}, {"sense": "one-cent coin or its value", "word": "cent"}, {"word": "peny"}, {"word": "penie"}, {"tags": ["obsolete"], "word": "pennie"}], "translations": [{"code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пени"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "pingin"}, {"code": "luy", "lang": "Luhya", 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"sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "roman": "peen-nii", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "เพนนี"}, {"code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنى"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنس"}, {"code": "vo", "lang": "Volapük", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "pänid"}, {"code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "ceiniog"}], "word": "penny"}
penny (English noun)
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[{"args": {"1": "sv", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swedish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swedish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "th", "2": "เพนนี", "bor": "1", "tr": "peen-nii"}, "expansion": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "tr", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Turkish: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Turkish: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ug", "2": "پەنى", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "vo", "2": "pänid", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Volapük: pänid", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Volapük: pänid"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "penny"}, "expansion": "Middle English penny", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "peniġ"}, "expansion": "Old English peniġ", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*panning"}, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *panning", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*panningaz"}, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *panningaz", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "pfennig", "3": "fening"}, "expansion": "Doublet of pfennig and fening", "name": "doublet"}], "etymology_text": "From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.", "forms": [{"form": "pennies", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "pence", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "pens", "tags": ["obsolete", "plural"]}], "head_templates": [{"args": {"1": "+", "2": "pence", "3": "pens", "pl3qual": "obsolete"}, "expansion": "penny (plural pennies or pence or (obsolete) pens)", "name": "en-noun"}], "hyphenation": ["pen‧ny"], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [{"word": "pence § Descendants"}], "senses": [{"categories": ["English terms with historical senses", "English terms with quotations"], "examples": [{"ref": "1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:", "text": "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 shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:", "text": "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, and some half-pennies, before we reached the north shore. Inspector Bell explained that many passengers try to throw a coin into the Forth, for \"good luck,\" while trains are crossing the bridge.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. 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"In compounds like twopenny, dated"}, {"rhymes": "-ɛni"}], "synonyms": [{"word": "old penny"}, {"sense": "new penny (old-fashioned)", "word": "1⁄100 of a pound sterling"}, {"sense": "one-cent coin or its value", "word": "cent"}, {"word": "peny"}, {"word": "penie"}, {"tags": ["obsolete"], "word": "pennie"}], "translations": [{"code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пени"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "pingin"}, {"code": "luy", "lang": "Luhya", 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"expansion": "→ French: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ French: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "de", "2": "Penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ German: Penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ German: Penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "he", "2": "פֶּנִי", "bor": "1", "tr": "péni"}, "expansion": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hi", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hu", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hungarian: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hungarian: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ja", "2": "ペニー", "bor": "1", "tr": "penī"}, "expansion": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ko", "2": "페니", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mk", "2": "пе́ни", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ms", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Malay: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Malay: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mi", "2": "pene", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Maori: pene", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Maori: pene"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mr", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nrf", "2": "pénîn", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norman: pénîn", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Norman: pénîn"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "no", "2": "-", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norwegian:", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Norwegian:"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nb", "2": "penny"}, "expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "Norwegian Bokmål: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nn", "2": "penny"}, "expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "Norwegian Nynorsk: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "pt", "2": "pêni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Portuguese: pêni", "name": "desc"}, {"args": {"1": "Brazil"}, "expansion": "(Brazil)", "name": "q"}, {"args": {"1": "Portugal"}, "expansion": "(Portugal)", "name": "q"}], "text": "→ Portuguese: pêni (Brazil), péni (Portugal)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ru", "2": "пе́нни", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Russian: пе́нни (pénni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Russian: пе́нни (pénni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "sw", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swahili: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swahili: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "sv", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swedish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swedish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "th", "2": "เพนนี", "bor": "1", "tr": "peen-nii"}, "expansion": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "tr", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Turkish: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Turkish: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ug", "2": "پەنى", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "vo", "2": "pänid", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Volapük: pänid", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Volapük: pänid"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "penny"}, "expansion": "Middle English penny", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "peniġ"}, "expansion": "Old English peniġ", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*panning"}, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *panning", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*panningaz"}, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *panningaz", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "pfennig", "3": "fening"}, "expansion": "Doublet of pfennig and fening", "name": "doublet"}], "etymology_text": "From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.", "forms": [{"form": "pennies", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "pence", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "pens", "tags": ["obsolete", "plural"]}], "head_templates": [{"args": {"1": "+", "2": "pence", "3": "pens", "pl3qual": "obsolete"}, "expansion": "penny (plural pennies or pence or (obsolete) pens)", "name": "en-noun"}], "hyphenation": ["pen‧ny"], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [{"word": "pence § Descendants"}], "senses": [{"categories": ["English terms with historical senses", "English terms with quotations"], "examples": [{"ref": "1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:", "text": "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 shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:", "text": "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, and some half-pennies, before we reached the north shore. Inspector Bell explained that many passengers try to throw a coin into the Forth, for \"good luck,\" while trains are crossing the bridge.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["In the United Kingdom and Ireland, 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."], "links": [["pound sterling", "pound sterling"], ["decimalisation", "decimalisation"], ["coin", "coin"], ["d", "d"]], "raw_glosses": ["(historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, 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."], "tags": ["historical"]}, {"glosses": ["In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p."], "links": [["coin", "coin"], ["p", "p"]]}, {"categories": ["English terms with historical senses"], "glosses": ["In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p."], "links": [["euro", "euro"], ["p", "p"]], "raw_glosses": ["(historical) In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p."], "tags": ["historical"]}, {"categories": ["English terms with quotations"], "examples": [{"ref": "2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:", "text": "Holy shit! A hundred and eleven pennies! At that point, that dog had more Lincoln in him than Mary Todd.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢."], "links": [["cent", "cent"], ["dollar", "dollar"], ["¢", "¢"]]}, {"glosses": ["In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin."], "links": [["small", "small"], ["denomination", "denomination"], ["copper", "copper"], ["brass", "brass"], ["coin", "coin"]]}, {"glosses": ["A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. 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"In compounds like twopenny, dated"}, {"rhymes": "-ɛni"}], "synonyms": [{"word": "old penny"}, {"sense": "new penny (old-fashioned)", "word": "1⁄100 of a pound sterling"}, {"sense": "one-cent coin or its value", "word": "cent"}, {"word": "peny"}, {"word": "penie"}, {"tags": ["obsolete"], "word": "pennie"}], "translations": [{"code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пени"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "pingin"}, {"code": "luy", "lang": "Luhya", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "litong'olo"}, {"code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "péni", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́ни"}, {"code": "ms", "lang": "Malay", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "mr", "lang": "Marathi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "word": "पेनी"}, {"code": "nrf", "lang": "Norman", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pénîn"}, {"code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pêni"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pénni", "sense": "1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́нни"}, {"code": "ru", 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{"code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "cent"}, {"code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "penco"}, {"code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "penny"}, {"code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "Penny"}, {"code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "péni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "פֶּנִי"}, {"code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "penī", "sense": "1/100 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"nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pêni (B)"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "péni (P)"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pénni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́нни"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "пенс"}, {"code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "sgillinn"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penique"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["common-gender"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "roman": "peen-nii", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "เพนนี"}, {"code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "peni"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "peni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنى"}, {"code": "ug", "lang": "Uyghur", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "پەنس"}, {"code": "vo", "lang": "Volapük", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "pänid"}, {"code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "word": "ceiniog"}], "word": "penny"}
penny (English noun)
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"Terms with Volapük translations", "Terms with Welsh translations", "en:Coins", "en:Currencies"], "derived": [{"word": "a bad penny always comes back"}, {"word": "a bad penny always turns up"}, {"word": "a penny saved is a penny earned"}, {"word": "a penny saved is a penny gained"}, {"word": "a pound to a penny"}, {"word": "bad penny"}, {"word": "bright as a new penny"}, {"word": "clean as a new penny"}, {"word": "eightpenny nail"}, {"word": "eight penny nail"}, {"word": "eight-penny nail"}, {"word": "four-penny nail"}, {"word": "fourpenny nail"}, {"word": "four penny nail"}, {"word": "get-penny"}, {"word": "God's penny"}, {"word": "hearth-penny"}, {"word": "in for a penny, in for a pound"}, {"word": "jam penny"}, {"word": "luck penny"}, {"word": "pence"}, {"word": "penniless"}, {"word": "penny-a-line"}, {"word": "penny-a-liner"}, {"word": "penny ante"}, {"word": "penny-ante"}, {"word": "penny arcade"}, {"word": "penny bank"}, {"word": "Penny Black"}, {"word": "penny bun"}, {"word": "penny candy"}, {"word": "penny chew"}, {"word": "penny dog"}, {"word": "penny dreadful"}, {"word": "penny-dreadfulish"}, {"word": "penny-dreadfulism"}, {"word": "penny fall"}, {"word": "penny farthing"}, {"word": "penny-farthing"}, {"word": "penny-father"}, {"word": "penny for one's thoughts"}, {"word": "penny for them"}, {"word": "penny for your thoughts"}, {"word": "penny gaff"}, {"word": "penny-gaff"}, {"word": "penny gaffe"}, {"word": "penny grass"}, {"word": "penny-grass"}, {"word": "penny in the fusebox"}, {"word": "penny-in-the-slot machine"}, {"word": "penny loafer"}, {"word": "penny mail"}, {"word": "penny packet"}, {"word": "penny-pig"}, {"word": "penny-pinch"}, {"word": "penny pincher"}, {"word": "penny-pincher"}, {"word": "penny-pinching"}, {"word": "penny post"}, {"word": "penny pusher"}, {"word": "penny slot"}, {"word": "penny starver"}, {"word": "penny sterling"}, {"word": "penny stock"}, {"word": "penny sweet"}, {"word": "penny tray"}, {"word": "penny university"}, {"word": "penny wedding"}, {"word": "penny-wedding"}, {"word": "penny weed"}, {"word": "penny whip"}, {"word": "penny whistle"}, {"word": "penny wisdom"}, {"word": "penny-wise"}, {"word": "penny wise and pound foolish"}, {"word": "penny-wise and pound-foolish"}, {"word": "pennywort"}, {"word": "Peter's penny"}, {"word": "pitchpenny"}, {"word": "pretty penny"}, {"word": "push-penny"}, {"word": "red penny"}, {"word": "Rome-penny"}, {"word": "scrape-penny"}, {"word": "six-penny nail"}, {"word": "sixpenny nail"}, {"word": "six penny nail"}, {"word": "sixteen-penny nail"}, {"word": "sixteen penny nail"}, {"word": "spear-penny"}, {"word": "spear penny"}, {"word": "spend a penny"}, {"word": "swarf-penny"}, {"word": "ten a penny"}, {"word": "tenpenny nail"}, {"word": "ten penny nail"}, {"word": "ten-penny nail"}, {"word": "the bad penny always comes back"}, {"word": "the bad penny always turns up"}, {"word": "the penny drops"}, {"word": "third penny"}, {"word": "tin penny"}, {"word": "toffee penny"}, {"word": "true-penny"}, {"word": "turn an honest penny"}, {"word": "twelve-penny nail"}, {"word": "twelve penny nail"}, {"word": "two a penny"}, {"word": "two ha'pennies for a penny"}, {"word": "watch the pennies"}, {"word": "wheat penny"}, {"word": "worth every penny"}], "descendants": [{"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "bg", "2": "пени", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Bulgarian: пени (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Bulgarian: пени (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "cs", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Czech: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Czech: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nl", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Dutch: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Dutch: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "fi", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Finnish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Finnish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "fr", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ French: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ French: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "de", "2": "Penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ German: Penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ German: Penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "he", "2": "פֶּנִי", "bor": "1", "tr": "péni"}, "expansion": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hebrew: פֶּנִי (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hi", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hindi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "hu", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Hungarian: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Hungarian: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ja", "2": "ペニー", "bor": "1", "tr": "penī"}, "expansion": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Japanese: ペニー (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ko", "2": "페니", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Korean: 페니 (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mk", "2": "пе́ни", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Macedonian: пе́ни (péni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ms", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Malay: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Malay: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mi", "2": "pene", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Maori: pene", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Maori: pene"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "mr", "2": "पेनी", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Marathi: पेनी (penī)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nrf", "2": "pénîn", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norman: pénîn", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Norman: pénîn"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "no", "2": "-", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Norwegian:", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Norwegian:"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nb", "2": "penny"}, "expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "Norwegian Bokmål: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "nn", "2": "penny"}, "expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "Norwegian Nynorsk: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "pt", "2": "pêni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Portuguese: pêni", "name": "desc"}, {"args": {"1": "Brazil"}, "expansion": "(Brazil)", "name": "q"}, {"args": {"1": "Portugal"}, "expansion": "(Portugal)", "name": "q"}], "text": "→ Portuguese: pêni (Brazil), péni (Portugal)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ru", "2": "пе́нни", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Russian: пе́нни (pénni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Russian: пе́нни (pénni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "sw", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swahili: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swahili: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "sv", "2": "penny", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Swedish: penny", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Swedish: penny"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "th", "2": "เพนนี", "bor": "1", "tr": "peen-nii"}, "expansion": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Thai: เพนนี (peen-nii)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "tr", "2": "peni", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Turkish: peni", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Turkish: peni"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "ug", "2": "پەنى", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Uyghur: پەنى (peni)"}, {"depth": 1, "templates": [{"args": {"1": "vo", "2": "pänid", "bor": "1"}, "expansion": "→ Volapük: pänid", "name": "desc"}], "text": "→ Volapük: pänid"}], "etymology_templates": [{"args": {"1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "penny"}, "expansion": "Middle English penny", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "ang", "3": "peniġ"}, "expansion": "Old English peniġ", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*panning"}, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *panning", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "gem-pro", "3": "*panningaz"}, "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *panningaz", "name": "inh"}, {"args": {"1": "en", "2": "pfennig", "3": "fening"}, "expansion": "Doublet of pfennig and fening", "name": "doublet"}], "etymology_text": "From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.", "forms": [{"form": "pennies", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "pence", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "pens", "tags": ["obsolete", "plural"]}], "head_templates": [{"args": {"1": "+", "2": "pence", "3": "pens", "pl3qual": "obsolete"}, "expansion": "penny (plural pennies or pence or (obsolete) pens)", "name": "en-noun"}], "hyphenation": ["pen‧ny"], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [{"word": "pence § Descendants"}], "senses": [{"categories": ["English terms with historical senses", "English terms with quotations"], "examples": [{"ref": "1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:", "text": "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 shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:", "text": "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, and some half-pennies, before we reached the north shore. Inspector Bell explained that many passengers try to throw a coin into the Forth, for \"good luck,\" while trains are crossing the bridge.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. 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"nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penny"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "pêni (B)"}, {"code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "péni (P)"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pénni", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["neuter"], "word": "пе́нни"}, {"code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pens", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "пенс"}, {"code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["feminine"], "word": "sgillinn"}, {"code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound", "tags": ["masculine"], "word": "penique"}, {"code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", 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