AI & ChatGPT searches , social queries for THE THREEPENNY-BITS
What is the meaning of THE THREEPENNY-BITS. Phrases containing THE THREEPENNY-BITS
See meanings and uses of THE THREEPENNY-BITS!
What is the meaning of THE THREEPENNY-BITS. Phrases containing THE THREEPENNY-BITS
See meanings and uses of THE THREEPENNY-BITS!Slangs & AI meanings
Noun. Women's breasts. Rhyming slang on 'tits'. Also thrupenny bits. Cf. 'thrups'.
Noun. Women's breasts. Shortening of thrupenny bits, rhyming slang on 'tits'. See 'threepenny bits'.
The threepenny bits is Australian rhyming slang for diarrhoea (the shits).
In high school, this referred to ripping off the little loop on the back of the wide half of a tie that the narrow end would be tucked into.
threepenny bit (3d), and also earlier a farthing (quarter of an old penny, ¼d), from the early 1900s, based on association with the word tiddler, meaning something very small.
tickey/ticky/tickie/tiki/tikki/tikkie
ticky or tickey was an old pre-decimal British silver threepenny piece (3d, equating loosely to 1¼p). The tickey slang was in use in 1950s UK (in Birmingham for example, thanks M Bramich), although the slang is more popular in South Africa, from which the British usage seems derived. In South Africa the various spellings refer to a SA threepenny piece, and now the equivalent SA post-decimalisation 2½ cents coin. South African tickey and variations - also meaning 'small' - are first recorded in the 19th century from uncertain roots (according to Partridge and Cassells) - take your pick: African distorted interpretation of 'ticket' or 'threepenny'; from Romany tikeno and tikno (meaning small); from Dutch stukje (meaning a little bit); from Hindustani taka (a stamped silver coin); and/or from early Portuguese 'pataca' and French 'patac' (meaning what?.. Partridge doesn't say).
He/she who rings the bell in a mess, buys a round of drinks for all the rest.
the country ‘He lives in the sticks somewhere.’
fifty pence piece (50p). A rare example of money slang from more recent times, even though it draws from the pre-decimal slang, since the term refers to ten shillings (equivalent to 50p) and alludes to the angular shape of the old theepenny bit.
much debate about this: According to my information (1894 Brewer, and the modern Cassell's, Oxford, Morton, and various other sources) Joey was originally, from 1835 or 1836 a silver fourpenny piece called a groat (Brewer is firm about this), and this meaning subsequently transferred to the silver threepenny piece (Cassell's, Oxford, and Morton). I'm convinced these were the principal and most common usages of the Joey coin slang. Cassell's says Joey was also used for the brass-nickel threepenny bit, which was introduced in 1937, although as a child in South London the 1960s I cannot remember the threepenny bit ever being called a Joey, and neither can my Mum or Dad, who both say a Joey in London was a silver threepence and nothing else (although they'd be too young to remember groats...). I'm informed however (ack Stuart Taylor, Dec 2006) that Joey was indeed slang for the brass-nickel threepenny bit among children of the Worcester area in the period up to decimalisation in 1971, so as ever, slang is subject to regional variation. I personally feel (and think I recall) there was some transference of the Joey slang to the sixpence (tanner) some time after the silver threepenny coin changed to the brass threepenny bit (which was during the 1930-40s), and this would have been understandable because the silver sixpence was similar to the silver threepence, albeit slightly larger. There is also a view that Joey transferred from the threepenny bit to the sixpence when the latter became a more usual minimum fare in London taxi-cabs. So although the fourpenny groat and the silver threepenny coin arguably lay the major claim to the Joey title, usage also seems to have extended to later coins, notably the silver sixpence (tanner) and the brass-nickel threepenny bit. The Joey slang word seems reasonably certainly to have been named after the politician Joseph Hume (1777-1855), who advocated successfully that the fourpenny groat be reintroduced, which it was in 1835 or 1836, chiefly to foil London cab drivers (horse driven ones in those days) in their practice of pretending not to have change, with the intention of extorting a bigger tip, particularly when given two shillings for a two-mile fare, which at the time cost one shilling and eight-pence. The re-introduction of the groat thus enabled many customers to pay the exact fare, and so the cab drivers used the term Joey as a derisory reference for the fourpenny groats.
information, giving someone the 411 is to tell them what is going on, from the 411 information directory on the phone system
Noun. See 'threepenny bits'. Thrupenny Bits - also the title of The Hampton Cobbler's original, cheeky and addictive punk rock football song.
Threepenny bits is London Cockney rhyming slang for diarrhoea. Threepenny bits is London Cockney rhyming slang for breats (tits).
Tie the noose is British slang for to get maried.
Churcher was old British slang for a threepenny piece.
information, giving someone the 411 is to tell them what is going on, from the 411 information directory on the phone system
Tits (breasts). Look at the Thr'penny's on her.
Tie the rap on is slang for charge a suspect with circumstantial evidence.
THE THREEPENNY-BITS
THE THREEPENNY-BITS
THE THREEPENNY-BITS
THE THREEPENNY-BITS
THE THREEPENNY-BITS
THE THREEPENNY-BITS
THE THREEPENNY-BITS
obj.
The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed.
n.
One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.
v. i.
See Thee.
n.
The parson bird.
def. art.
The.
adv.
By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.
n.
Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.
pron.
Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine.
n.
The nodule of earth from which the ball is struck in golf.
obj.
This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
v. t.
A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.
n.
A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny.
definite article.
A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.
n.
The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.
v. t.
To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark.
n.
The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.
v. t.
See Tie, the proper orthography.
a.
Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
pron.
The objective case of they. See They.
THE THREEPENNY-BITS
THE THREEPENNY-BITS
THE THREEPENNY-BITS