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What does tuppence mean?

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Noun
  1. (Britain, informal, dated) Two pence (in pre- or post-decimalisation currency).
  2. (Britain, idiomatic) Opinion.
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That's 'im that the lady kissed, and that GeV me tuppence and threatened to drownd me.
I spent fourpence of that in bread and cheese, that on the table's the tuppence.
Will Crooks, a cooper living in extreme poverty in East London, once spent tuppence on a secondhand Iliad, and was dazzled.
How can you be said to have a direct pecuniary interest in the outcome of proceedings if it does not matter tuppence to you, personally, who wins or loses.
They do not expect us to pay tuppence for a penny bun, Mr Maitland.
The time it takes me to get tuppence out of them, why, it's 'eart-breaking.

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