![]() Punch's Life in London, The Educational Book Co. When a shop-keeper, of whom you have purchased tuppence worth of something, and have taken up half an hour of his time, bows you out, and says, "Thank you! thank you very much!" and does it all with an air of deferential regard, you cannot help feeling that this volume of thanks comes from no deeper source than his lips ![]() 1879, Franc Bangs Wilkie, Sketches Beyond the Sea, "Letter IX", Hazlitt & Reed, p.Wal, take my horse under the apple tree yonder, and give him tuppence worth of hay take off his saddle and rub him down, and don't give him any water, cos I set great store by him. 1848, The Rural Repository, "'Paternizing' a Landlord", vol.English citations of tuppence worth Noun: "worth two pennies"
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