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eightpenny
[
eyt
-pen-ee
]
eight·pen·ny
/
ˈeɪtˌpɛn
i
/
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[
eyt
-pen-ee
]
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adjective
1.
noting a nail 2
1
/
2
inches (64 mm) long.
2.
costing or amounting to the sum of eight pennies.
Symbol:
8d
Origin:
1490–1500;
eight
+
-penny
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Eightpenny
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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eightpenny
adjective
used of nail size; 2 1/2 in or 6.4 cm long
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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