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luck-penny

luck-penny is the alternative form of luck penny.

Meaning of luck penny

Noun

luck penny (plural luck pennies)

  1. (archaic) A small sum of money given back for luck when paying.
    • I mean, had he not luckily exposed his legacy to jeopardy, having offered it as bounty-money and luckpenny to the patronc. 1827, Thomas Carlyle (translator), originally byJean Paul Friedrich Richter, The Campaner thal, and other writings, Life of Quintus Fixlein
    Synonyms:
    God's penny
  2. A coin carried or given for luck.
    • '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.1812, Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee, Chapter X

Forms of luck-penny

pluralluck-pennies

Questions about luck-penny

What is luck-penny the alternative form of?
Luck-penny is the alternative form of luck penny.

Words near luck-penny in the dictionary

  1. luck pennies
  2. luck penny
  3. luck through
  4. luck-money
  5. luck-pennies
  6. luck-penny
  7. luckbox
  8. luckboxes
  9. Lucke
  10. lucked
  11. lucked in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: luck-penny (page history and authors); luck penny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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