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thruppences

thruppences is the plural 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

Questions about thruppences

What is thruppences the plural of?
Thruppences is the plural of thruppence.

Words near thruppences in the dictionary

  1. thrupenny
  2. thruple
  3. thruples
  4. Thrupp
  5. thruppence
  6. thruppences
  7. thruppennies
  8. thruppenny
  9. thruppeny
  10. thrupple
  11. Thrupps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thruppences (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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