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getpenny

getpenny is the alternative form of get-penny.

Meaning of get-penny

Noun

get-penny (plural get-pennies)

  1. (colloquial, dated) Something that makes money; a financially successful affair.
    • thou and thy acts become the posies for hospitals; when thy name shall be written upon conduits, and thy deeds played i' thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be called their get-penny.1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the...

Forms of getpenny

pluralgetpennies

Questions about getpenny

What is getpenny the alternative form of?
Getpenny is the alternative form of get-penny.

Words near getpenny in the dictionary

  1. Getman
  2. Getmans
  3. getout
  4. getouts
  5. getpennies
  6. getpenny
  7. gets
  8. gets 'er done
  9. gets a charge out of
  10. gets a clue
  11. gets a fix

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