"two pennies' worth" meaning in English

See two pennies' worth in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-au-two pennies' worth.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} two pennies' worth (uncountable)
  1. (idiomatic, UK, colloquial) One's opinion or thoughts. Tags: UK, colloquial, idiomatic, uncountable Related terms: for what it's worth, penny for your thoughts Translations (one's opinion): grain de sel [masculine] (French), trzy grosze [masculine, plural] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-two_pennies'_worth-en-noun-QmeKmU6- Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Synonyms: two pennies, 2p, ; [US], two cents' worth, two cents, , two penn’orth, twopenn’orth, two pennorth, tuppence worth, tuppenceworth, tuppenny's worth [UK]

Download JSON data for two pennies' worth meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "two pennies' worth (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "That's just my two pennies' worth; you can believe what you like.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One's opinion or thoughts."
      ],
      "id": "en-two_pennies'_worth-en-noun-QmeKmU6-",
      "links": [
        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion"
        ],
        [
          "thought",
          "thought"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, UK, colloquial) One's opinion or thoughts."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "for what it's worth"
        },
        {
          "word": "penny for your thoughts"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "two pennies"
        },
        {
          "word": "2p"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": ";"
        },
        {
          "word": "two cents' worth"
        },
        {
          "word": "two cents"
        },
        {
          "word": "2¢"
        },
        {
          "word": "two penn’orth"
        },
        {
          "word": "twopenn’orth"
        },
        {
          "word": "two pennorth"
        },
        {
          "word": "tuppence worth"
        },
        {
          "word": "tuppenceworth"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "tuppenny's worth"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "one's opinion",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "grain de sel"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "one's opinion",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "trzy grosze"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-two pennies' worth.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/En-au-two_pennies%27_worth.ogg/En-au-two_pennies%27_worth.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/En-au-two_pennies%27_worth.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "two pennies' worth"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "two pennies' worth (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "for what it's worth"
    },
    {
      "word": "penny for your thoughts"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "That's just my two pennies' worth; you can believe what you like.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One's opinion or thoughts."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion"
        ],
        [
          "thought",
          "thought"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, UK, colloquial) One's opinion or thoughts."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "two pennies"
        },
        {
          "word": "2p"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": ";"
        },
        {
          "word": "two cents' worth"
        },
        {
          "word": "two cents"
        },
        {
          "word": "2¢"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-two pennies' worth.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/En-au-two_pennies%27_worth.ogg/En-au-two_pennies%27_worth.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/En-au-two_pennies%27_worth.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "two penn’orth"
    },
    {
      "word": "twopenn’orth"
    },
    {
      "word": "two pennorth"
    },
    {
      "word": "tuppence worth"
    },
    {
      "word": "tuppenceworth"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "tuppenny's worth"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one's opinion",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grain de sel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "one's opinion",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "trzy grosze"
    }
  ],
  "word": "two pennies' worth"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.