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n breasts: She was a bit dull but what a cracking pair of thrupney bits! From Cockney rhyming slang “thrupney bits” / “tits.” The thrupney bit was once a three-pence coin but is no longer in circulation. Although I’ve been doing my best to avoid putting plurals into this piece of work, I have a lot of trouble trying to think of any situation in which you would ever refer to a single thrupney bit. Perhaps someday the terms “thrupney bit implants” or “thrupney bit cancer” will be commonplace, but they aren’t now.
The long bits of hair at the back of a mullet hairstyle.
Shits (diarrhoea). I've got a real case of the two-bob bits.
much debate about this: According to my information (1894 Brewer, and the modern Cassell's, Oxford, Morton, and various other sources) Joey was originally, from 1835 or 1836 a silver fourpenny piece called a groat (Brewer is firm about this), and this meaning subsequently transferred to the silver threepenny piece (Cassell's, Oxford, and Morton). I'm convinced these were the principal and most common usages of the Joey coin slang. Cassell's says Joey was also used for the brass-nickel threepenny bit, which was introduced in 1937, although as a child in South London the 1960s I cannot remember the threepenny bit ever being called a Joey, and neither can my Mum or Dad, who both say a Joey in London was a silver threepence and nothing else (although they'd be too young to remember groats...). I'm informed however (ack Stuart Taylor, Dec 2006) that Joey was indeed slang for the brass-nickel threepenny bit among children of the Worcester area in the period up to decimalisation in 1971, so as ever, slang is subject to regional variation. I personally feel (and think I recall) there was some transference of the Joey slang to the sixpence (tanner) some time after the silver threepenny coin changed to the brass threepenny bit (which was during the 1930-40s), and this would have been understandable because the silver sixpence was similar to the silver threepence, albeit slightly larger. There is also a view that Joey transferred from the threepenny bit to the sixpence when the latter became a more usual minimum fare in London taxi-cabs. So although the fourpenny groat and the silver threepenny coin arguably lay the major claim to the Joey title, usage also seems to have extended to later coins, notably the silver sixpence (tanner) and the brass-nickel threepenny bit. The Joey slang word seems reasonably certainly to have been named after the politician Joseph Hume (1777-1855), who advocated successfully that the fourpenny groat be reintroduced, which it was in 1835 or 1836, chiefly to foil London cab drivers (horse driven ones in those days) in their practice of pretending not to have change, with the intention of extorting a bigger tip, particularly when given two shillings for a two-mile fare, which at the time cost one shilling and eight-pence. The re-introduction of the groat thus enabled many customers to pay the exact fare, and so the cab drivers used the term Joey as a derisory reference for the fourpenny groats.
fifty pence piece (50p). A rare example of money slang from more recent times, even though it draws from the pre-decimal slang, since the term refers to ten shillings (equivalent to 50p) and alludes to the angular shape of the old theepenny bit.
tickey/ticky/tickie/tiki/tikki/tikkie
ticky or tickey was an old pre-decimal British silver threepenny piece (3d, equating loosely to 1¼p). The tickey slang was in use in 1950s UK (in Birmingham for example, thanks M Bramich), although the slang is more popular in South Africa, from which the British usage seems derived. In South Africa the various spellings refer to a SA threepenny piece, and now the equivalent SA post-decimalisation 2½ cents coin. South African tickey and variations - also meaning 'small' - are first recorded in the 19th century from uncertain roots (according to Partridge and Cassells) - take your pick: African distorted interpretation of 'ticket' or 'threepenny'; from Romany tikeno and tikno (meaning small); from Dutch stukje (meaning a little bit); from Hindustani taka (a stamped silver coin); and/or from early Portuguese 'pataca' and French 'patac' (meaning what?.. Partridge doesn't say).
Noun. Women's breasts. Rhyming slang on 'tits'. Also thrupenny bits. Cf. 'thrups'.
Noun. See 'threepenny bits'. Thrupenny Bits - also the title of The Hampton Cobbler's original, cheeky and addictive punk rock football song.
The threepenny bits is Australian rhyming slang for diarrhoea (the shits).
threepenny bit (3d), and also earlier a farthing (quarter of an old penny, ¼d), from the early 1900s, based on association with the word tiddler, meaning something very small.
Tits (breasts). Look at the Thr'penny's on her.
Joey is British slang for a fool, dupe, victim.Joey is British prison slang for a package smuggled in or out of prison.Joey was old British slang for a clown.Joey was British slang for a threepenny coin.Joey is Australian slang for an effeminate man.Joey is Australian slang for a young kangaroo.Joey is Australian slang for a baby.
Noun. Women's breasts. Shortening of thrupenny bits, rhyming slang on 'tits'. See 'threepenny bits'.
Noun. 1. Generally the fat bits of a persons body that might be prone to jiggle. 2. A woman's breasts.
three pounds, and earlier threpence (thruppeny bit, 3d), ultimately from the Latin tres meaning three, and especially from the use of tray and trey for the number three in cards and dice games.
Noun. A euphemism for the genitals. E.g."Getting a cricket ball in the rude bits is seriously painful."
Threepenny bits is London Cockney rhyming slang for diarrhoea. Threepenny bits is London Cockney rhyming slang for breats (tits).
Churcher was old British slang for a threepenny piece.
Adj. Mentally confused. E.g."It's no wonder he's in bits, he's had two tabs of acid, four grams of coke and smoked an ounce of draw."
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threepence piece, usually simply known as a threepence, thruppence, or thruppenny bit, was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄80 of one pound or 1⁄4 of
Speech Debelle - "Blaze Up a Fire" (from Freedom of Speech) Colossus – "Thrupenny Bits" (from "West Oaktown") (OmRecords 2002 – pseudonym Hylton Smythe) Nightmares
temper, throw a tantrum thruppennies (rhyming slang) breasts/tits (from thrupenny bits, obsolete British coin) tinned canned as in "tinned soup" or "a tin
previously found on the British one-penny coin and on the predecimal thrupenny bit; this has since been replaced by a section of the Royal Arms of the
used for modern coins. In older terms like two-bob bit (2/-) and thrupenny bit (3d), the word bit had common usage before decimalisation similar to that
my name isn't Ena Sharples – from what I hear, it's two clogs to a thrupenny bit that she'll electrocute 'erself with 'er own 'airdryer." This sketch's
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n.
One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps."
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A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
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A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler.
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The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm.
v. t.
To bite upon something gently or cautiously; to eat a little of a thing, as by taking small bits cautiously; as, fishes nibble at the bait.
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Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves.
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The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
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Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
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A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
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A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.
v. t.
To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.
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A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.
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Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.
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A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
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To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable.
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