penny

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɛni/    美 /ˈpɛni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d. historical
    — Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  2. In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
  3. In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p. historical
  4. In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.
    — Holy shit! A hundred and eleven pennies! At that point, that dog had more Lincoln in him than Mary Todd.
  5. In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
  6. A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
  7. Money in general.
    — to turn an honest penny
动词 v.
  1. To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door. slang
    — Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.
  2. To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.
  3. During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to drop a penny in a person's drink with the expectation that they finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.
    — You got pennied! Down it, fresher.

词形变化

pennies plural pence plural pens obsolete,plural peny alternative,obsolete penie alternative,obsolete pennie alternative,obsolete pennies present,singular,third-person pennying participle,present pennied participle,past pennied past peny alternative,obsolete penie alternative,obsolete pennie alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
old penny 1⁄100 of a pound sterling
衍生词
a bad penny always comes back a bad penny always turns up a penny saved is a penny earned a penny saved is a penny gained a pound to a penny bad penny bright as a new penny catchpenny clean as a new penny dead man's penny death penny eighteenpenny eightpenny eightpenny nail eight penny nail eight-penny nail elevenpenny fair penny fifteenpenny fine penny fivepenny fortypenny fourpenny four penny nail fourpenny nail four-penny nail fourteenpenny get-penny God's penny hearth-penny in for a penny, in for a pound jam penny Kissi penny lickpenny luck penny megapenny ninepenny pence penniless penny-a-line penny-a-liner penny-ante penny ante penny arcade penny auction penny bank Penny Black penny bun penny candy penny chew pennycress penny dog penny dreadful penny-dreadfulish penny-dreadfulism penny fall penny-farthing penny farthing penny-father penny for one's thoughts penny for them penny for your thoughts penny gaffe penny gaff penny-gaff penny grass penny-grass penny in the fusebox penny-in-the-slot machine pennyland penny loafer penny mail penny packet penny-pig penny-pinch penny-pincher penny pincher penny-pinching penny post penny pusher penny SKU penny sleeve penny slot penny starver penny sterling penny stock penny sweet penny tray penny university penny-wedding penny wedding penny weed pennyweight penny whip pennywhistle penny whistle penny wisdom penny-wise pennywise penny-wise and pound-foolish penny wise and pound foolish pennywort pennyworth Peter's penny pickpenny pinchpenny pitchpenny pretty penny push-penny red penny Rome-penny scrape-penny sevenpenny sixpenny sixpenny nail six penny nail six-penny nail sixteenpenny sixteen penny nail sixteen-penny nail spear penny spear-penny spend a penny swarf-penny ten a penny tenpenny ten penny nail tenpenny nail ten-penny nail the bad penny always comes back the bad penny always turns up the penny drops third penny thirteenpenny thirtypenny threepenny tin penny toffee penny true-penny turn an honest penny twalpenny twelvepenny twelve-penny nail twelve penny nail twentypenny two a penny two ha'pennies for a penny twopenny watch the pennies water penny wheat penny widow's penny worth every penny
相关词
pence § Descendants d cent

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Pre-Greekder.?
Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē)bor.
Latin patina
Latin panna?
Latin pannus?
Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
?
Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
Proto-Germanic *panningaz
Proto-West Germanic *panning
Old English peniġ
Middle English peny
English penny
From Middle English peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Pre-Greekder.?
Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē)bor.
Latin patina
Latin panna?
Latin pannus?
Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
?
Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
Proto-Germanic *panningaz
Proto-West Germanic *panning
Old English peniġ
Middle English peny
English penny
From Middle English peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.
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