"ninepence" meaning in English

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      "word": "commendation ninepence"
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      "word": "neat as ninepence"
    },
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      "word": "nice as ninepence"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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  "etymology_text": "From nine + pence.",
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    {
      "form": "ninepences",
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          "ref": "1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:",
          "text": "His wits were sent him for a token, \\ But in the carriage crack'd and broken. \\ Like commendation nine-pence, crookt \\ With—to and from my love—it lookt.",
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        "A former British silver coin, worth nine old pennies."
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        "(obsolete, British) A former British silver coin, worth nine old pennies."
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          "ref": "1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 137:",
          "text": "I had sold it to her that morning for ninepence; the real price was a shilling, but it was somewhat shopworn.",
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        "Nine old pennies."
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        "(obsolete, British) Nine old pennies."
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        "A Spanish real, valued at twelve and a half cents."
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        "(obsolete, New England) A Spanish real, valued at twelve and a half cents."
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      "word": "commendation ninepence"
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    },
    {
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          "text": "His wits were sent him for a token, \\ But in the carriage crack'd and broken. \\ Like commendation nine-pence, crookt \\ With—to and from my love—it lookt.",
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      ],
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        }
      ],
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        "Nine old pennies."
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        "(obsolete, British) Nine old pennies."
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