Definition of penny

"penny" in the noun sense

1. penny

a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom equal to one hundredth of a pound

2. penny, cent, centime

a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit

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Quotations for penny

No penny no pardon. [ Proverb ]

Penny and penny
Laid up will be many. [ Proverb ]

Touch pot, touch penny. [ Proverb ]

No penny no paternoster. [ Proverb ]

A penny for your thought. [ Swift ]

Penny wise, pound foolish. [ Burton ]

Who will not lay up a penny,
Shall never have many. [ Proverb ]

A penny spared is twice got. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A penny more buys the whistle. [ Proverb ]

A penny saved is twopence got. [ Proverb ]

A two penny cat may look at a king. [ Proverb ]

A bad penny always comes back again. [ German Proverb ]

There is no companion like the penny. [ Proverb ]

Penny come quick soon makes twopence. [ Proverb ]

Penny in pocket is a merry companion. [ Proverb ]

Is no coin good silver but your penny? [ Proverb ]

A penny-worth of ease is worth a penny. [ Proverb ]

The smith and his penny both are black. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The poor man's shilling is but a penny. [ Proverb ]

He hasn't a penny left to buy a halter. [ Proverb ]

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made.
To turn a penny in the way of trade. [ Cowper ]

Every one hath a penny for the new alehouse. [ Proverb ]

Every penny that is taken is not clear gains. [ Proverb ]

That penny. is well spent that saves a groat. [ Proverb ]

You may know by a penny how a shilling spends. [ Proverb ]

A penny-weight of love is worth a pound of law. [ Proverb ]

He that regards not a penny will lavish a pound. [ Proverb ]

A friend in court is as good as a penny in pocket. [ Proverb ]

In courtesy, rather pay a penny too much than too little. [ Proverb ]

Give the piper a penny to play, and twopence to leave off. [ Proverb ]

A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. [ Franklin ]

Who would keep a cow, when he may have a quart of milk for a penny? [ Proverb ]

How hast thou purchased this experience? By my penny of observation. [ William Shakespeare ]

Penny in purse will make me drink, when all the friends I have will not. [ Proverb ]

The poor man's penny unjustly detained, is a coal of fire in a rich man's purse. [ Proverb ]

Put a poor man's penny and a rich man's penny into a purse, and they'll come out alike. [ Proverb ]

The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is one penny saved in four, between buying in thy necessity, and when the markets and seasons are fittest for it. [ Lord Burleigh ]

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him. [ Addison ]

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. [ Shenstone ]

penny in Scrabble®

The word penny is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters penny:

PENNY
(42)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word penny

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The 99 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In penny

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penny in Words With Friends™

The word penny is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters penny:

PENNY
(60)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word penny

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The 112 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In penny

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Words within the letters of penny

2 letter words in penny (3 words)

3 letter words in penny (3 words)

5 letter words in penny (1 word)

penny + 2 blanks (3 words)

Words containing the sequence penny

Words with penny in them (1 word)

Words that end with penny (4 words)

Word Growth involving penny

Shorter words in penny

en pen

pe pen

Longer words containing penny

ninepenny

pennycress pennycresses

pennypinch pennypinched

pennypinch pennypincher pennypinchers

pennypinch pennypinches

pennypinch pennypinching

pennyweight pennyweights

pennywort pennyworth pennyworths

pennywort pennyworts

sixpenny

tithingpenny