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    A halfpenny was a tiny British coin, worth half of one penny. People used it for a very long time; Britain stopped making it in the 1980s, so it is history now, not pocket money. Though actually, older speakers often do not say it as two clear bits (“half” + “penny”). They squeeze it into something like “haypenny”. In stories it can stand for something almost worthless: “I haven't a halfpenny” means you have no money at all. You may also see the old spelling ha'penny, with letters swallowed.

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組成From Middle English halpeni, halfpeni, and then from half + penny (old English penning, a coin). Half is “one of two equal parts”; penny is the British coin. So the name is simply “half a penny”. (The same word later became a nickname for a tenant.)

同家族的字

  • pennythe second half is the British coin; a halfpenny was worth half of one
  • halfthe first half means one of two equal parts

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Halfpennyname/ˈhɑːfˌpɛni/

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    A surname transferred from the nickname.

halfpennynoun/ˈheɪp(ə)ni/

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    historicalhobbieslifestylenumismaticsSenses chiefly with the plural form halfpennies.

    • There vvere none principal, they vvere all like one another, as halfe pence are, euerie one fault ſeeming monſtrous, til his fellovv-fault came to match it.
    • [T]here are Thouſands vvho vvould not have contributed a ſingle Halfpenny, as indeed he did not in Effect, for he made no Tender of any thing; and therefore as the others thought proer to make no Demand, he kept his Money in his Pocket.
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    historicalhobbieslifestylenumismaticsSenses chiefly with the plural form halfpennies.

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    historicalhobbieslifestylenumismaticsSenses chiefly with the plural form halfpence.

    • There ſhall be in England, ſeuen halfe peny Loaues ſold for a peny: the three hoop'd pot, ſhall haue ten hoopes, and I vvill make it Fellony to drink ſmall Beere.
    • My earlieſt vviſh vvas to eſcape unheeded through life; but I have been ſet up for half-pence, to fret and ſcamper at the end of my chain.
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    historicalhobbieslifestylenumismaticsSenses chiefly with the plural form halfpence.

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    historicalhobbieslifestylephilatelyA postage stamp worth half of one penny.

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    archaicagriculturebusinesslifestyleA usually semicircular earmark made in the ear of a livestock animal.

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    obsoleteA small piece; a fragment.

    • O ſhe tore the letter into a thouſand halfpence, raild at her ſelf, that ſhe ſhould be ſo immodeſt to vvrite, to one that ſhe knevv vvould flout her, […]

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。