Associations to the word «Halfpenny»

Wiktionary

HALFPENNY, noun. (plural: halfpennies) (historical) A discontinued British coin worth half of one penny (old or new).
HALFPENNY, noun. (plural: halfpence) A quantity of money worth half a penny.
HALFPENNY, adjective. Costing or worth one halfpenny.

Dictionary definition

HALFPENNY, noun. An English coin worth half a penny.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne