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Definition of Pennywise
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pennywise
Literary usage of Pennywise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1853)
"pennywise, on the contrary, is thronged with an ill-shaped, worthless stock, ...
Thus pennywise drags on a miserable life in the road to ruin, ..."
2. The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical by Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld (1820)
"... Alderman pennywise; but before they had done, one came in and told them, to
their great disappointment, that their brother pennywise was fallen asleep. ..."
3. The spiritual Quixote: or, The summer's ramble of mr. Geoffry Wildgoose [by by Richard Graves, Geoffry Wildgoose (1808)
"... for the recovery of alderman pennywise ; l.ut, before they had done, one came
iu and told them, to their great ..."
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