sixpenny
/ˈsɪksˌpɛni/
adjective
- Costing or worth six pence (in British currency before decimalization in 1971).
- She found an old sixpenny coin in her grandmother's jewelry box.
- The shop sold sixpenny candies that children could buy with their pocket money.
- In Victorian times, a sixpenny ticket could get you a seat in the gallery of the theater.
- Of little value or importance; cheap or insignificant.
- He dismissed the criticism as a sixpenny complaint not worth his attention.
- They lived in a sixpenny boarding house on the outskirts of town.
- The novel was a sixpenny romance, quickly forgotten after one read.
noun
- A British coin worth six pence, used before decimalization.
- The beggar held out his hand, hoping for a sixpenny or two.
- In the old days, a sixpenny could buy a loaf of bread.
- Grandpa showed me a sixpenny from his collection of old coins.