tuppenceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌp(ə)ns/

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tuppence (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tuppences)

1. (Britain, informal, dated) Two pence (in pre- または post-decimalisation currency).

   Milk has gone up to tuppence ha’penny a pint.

   • 1909, W. W. Jacobs, “Prize Money,”, in Sailor's Knots:

     In less than four days twenty-three men had paid their tuppences to Henery, who ’ad been made the seckitary.

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 11:

     ‘Miss Brindle rich?’ said Aunt Maggie. ‘Bless you, she hasn’t tuppence to rub together.’

2. (Britain, idiomatic) Short for tuppence worth (“one’s opinion”).
3. (Britain, slang, euphemistic, usually childish) The vulva or vagina.
   • 2011, Kunt and the Gang, Fucksticks (song)

     "Fucksticks!" When some smart-arse bastard gives me my comeuppance / "Fucksticks!" When it’s ages since I’ve seen a lady’s tuppence

   • 2012, Richard Johns, Diagnosis of the Soul: The Long Road to the Beginning:

     The lady confided to the nurse helping her up off the examination couch, and told her “He put his hand up me funnel and made me tuppence bleed!”

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