A man has a winkle and a woman has a tuppence On one hand, those are two presumably independent contributors giving the same definition On the other hand, you often can't trust the urban dictionary on some types of words, especially ones that have sexual meanings, because it's titillating for some people to give outrageous sexual definitions From the feed the birds song in mary poppins The lyrics include the phrase tuppence a bag Has anyone heard of an expression, from the renaissance or older, containing the word tuppence which describes a student of the law or someone without a great deal of experience or training in it?
That's my two cents sounds fine, those are my two cents sounds very awkward, archaic and pedantic. The use of two cents in this sense is thought to be derived from a similar british use of twopence or tuppence, which dates from around about 1600 The american coin was substituted in the 1800s, along with two bits, slang for 25 cents and also meaning a petty sum. There is the word tuppence Chiefly british variant of twopence American heritage dictionary and there are the terms twopenn'orth and two pennorth
Oxford living dictionaries or a tuppence worth. Given the metaphoric usage clearly predates the industrial revolution, i seriously doubt it was inspired by significant earlier literal use You might as well say that's not worth tuppence has some meaningful link to the fact that hundreds of years ago two pence represented a significant amount of money to many of the peasantry. To me it seems perfectly fine, but i heard from a native speaker that it does not sound natural — will you please send the assets by tomorrow Cum is the latin word for with and is usually used to join two nouns, showing that something serves two purposes
I inadvertently caused a great deal of amusement among a group of friends by incorrectly using the word goose to describe the action of sneaking up behind a person and poking, tickling, or touching
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