"luck penny" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "luck pennies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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      "expansion": "luck penny (plural luck pennies)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1827, Thomas Carlyle (translator), originally byJean Paul Friedrich Richter, The Campaner thal, and other writings, Life of Quintus Fixlein",
          "text": "I mean, had he not luckily exposed his legacy to jeopardy, having offered it as bounty-money and luckpenny to the patron",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small sum of money given back for luck when paying."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A small sum of money given back for luck when paying."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "God's penny"
        }
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1812, Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee, Chapter X",
          "text": "'A kind harvest to you, John Dolan,' cried the postillion, 'and success to ye, Winny, with the quality. There's a luck-penny for the child to begin with,' added he, throwing the child a penny.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coin carried or given for luck."
      ],
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      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "31 69",
          "word": "strike me lucky"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "40 60",
          "word": "luck-penny"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "40 60",
          "word": "luckpenny"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "luck penny"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "luck pennies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "strike me lucky"
    }
  ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
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          "ref": "c. 1827, Thomas Carlyle (translator), originally byJean Paul Friedrich Richter, The Campaner thal, and other writings, Life of Quintus Fixlein",
          "text": "I mean, had he not luckily exposed his legacy to jeopardy, having offered it as bounty-money and luckpenny to the patron",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small sum of money given back for luck when paying."
      ],
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        ],
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          "luck",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A small sum of money given back for luck when paying."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "God's penny"
        }
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
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          "ref": "1812, Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee, Chapter X",
          "text": "'A kind harvest to you, John Dolan,' cried the postillion, 'and success to ye, Winny, with the quality. There's a luck-penny for the child to begin with,' added he, throwing the child a penny.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coin carried or given for luck."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "luck-penny"
    },
    {
      "word": "luckpenny"
    }
  ],
  "word": "luck penny"
}