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thrippence

thrippence is the alternative form of thruppence.

Meaning of thruppence

Noun

thruppence (countable and uncountable, plural thruppences)

  1. (UK, dated, informal) Threepence.
    • "For thruppence you can buy one, full right to the brim."1971, Richard Sinclair with Caravan, “Golf Girl”, in In the Land of Grey and Pink

Forms of thrippence

pluralthrippences

Questions about thrippence

What is thrippence the alternative form of?
Thrippence is the alternative form of thruppence.

Words near thrippence in the dictionary

  1. thripicides
  2. thripid
  3. thripids
  4. Thriplow
  5. Thriplow and Heathfield
  6. thrippence
  7. thrippences
  8. thrippenny
  9. thripple
  10. thripples
  11. thrips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thrippence (page history and authors); thruppence (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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