thrippence

[ thrip-uhns ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

This fine de-tersive soap—on-ly thrippence a tab-let—takes stains out of all kinds of things.

"Tha mun pay thrippence only, mind," he warned me when the conductor came round.

Aw can buy a square o' glass that size, for abaat thrippence, an better glass nor that wor too.

Ye cann't reckon on moor nor thrippence,—an' your own expenses, i' coorse.

They, of course, don't care thrippence about me; it's you they hope to annoy.

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