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Definition of Truepenny
1. n. An honest fellow.
Definition of Truepenny
1. [n -NIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truepenny
Literary usage of Truepenny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"truepenny did promise me to run a great pace, My friend Tristram Trusty to fet
... I canl thee thank, truepenny; hath grown on my heel: But Master Tristram ..."
2. Publications by William Shakespeare, New Shakspere Society (London, England) (1885)
"Alph. Why then old truepenny the Duke is now moft violently in labour. ...
This is possibly a recollection of Hamlet's ' truepenny ' and ' old mole ' (I. v. ..."
3. Our honeymoon, and other comicalities, from "Punch" (1859)
"said Mr. truepenny, as if the word half stuck between his lips. ... I should
hope, Mr. truepenny, that there is good preaching everywhere; that is, ..."
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