pfenig

[ fen-ig ]

noun

, plural pfen·ig, pfen·igs.

1. a monetary unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one 100th of a marka.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pfenig¹

First recorded in 1995–2000; from German Pfennig penny ( def )

Example Sentences

Edlerkopf, Pfenig and Wild Kranz, with their wives and families, and all the chief members of the court promised to attend at the ceremony, and great were the rejoicings that the solitary philosopher was about to enjoy the sweet pleasures of home life.

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The three ministers, Edlerkopf, Pfenig, and Wild Kranz, with their wives and children, joined heart and soul in the gaieties of the evening.

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They had been educated together, and while Edlerkopf lent to the counsels of state the aid of wise and deliberate judgment and the weight of his nobly impartial character, Pfenig was the most wonderful manager of the public purse, and could not only calculate the incoming revenue within a hairsbreadth, but could also regulate government expenditure so exactly as to keep all departments amply supplied, and yet preserve a due regard to economy.

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Pfenig and Edlerkopf were devoted friends, as well as ministers at court.

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Edlerkopf, Wild Kranz and Pfenig were all married, but Bruno had a solitary home; and no one without ocular demonstration would have believed in what a shabby den this great statesman passed much of his time.

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