Shilling vs Penny - What's the difference?
shilling | penny |
A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries.
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*:A great bargain also had beenthe arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.
(lb) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling.
(lb) In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: .
In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
Money in general.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:What penny hath Rome borne, / What men provided, what munition sent?
(slang) To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
(electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.
As a noun shilling
is a coin formerly used in the united kingdom, ireland, malta, australia, new zealand and many other commonwealth countries.As a verb shilling
is .As a proper noun penny is
a diminutive of the female given name penelope.shilling
English
(wikipedia shilling)Etymology 1
(etyl) scilling, (etyl) http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=shillingNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
; Abbreviations * (sense) s. or'' s ''or / (solidus) * (in Kenya) Ksh; (in Somalia'') ; (''in Tanzania'') TSh; (''in Uganda ) UGS In East Africa, the names of the currencies usually use the proper noun for the country, not its adjectival form: "Kenya shilling", "Tanzania shilling", etc. Amounts are written with a solidus, probably from the UK usage: "2/50" is 2 shillings, 50 cents (not pence); 30 shillings only is written "30/=".Synonyms
* bob, hog * (Australia) deenerSee also
* * schilling * skilding * solidusDerived terms
*King's shillingExternal links
*Currencies of the world
Etymology 2
From shill.Verb
(head)penny
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Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
The plural is used for other cases, in particular when referring to multiple individual coins.Synonyms
* old penny * new penny (old-fashioned ) * (one-cent coin) centDerived terms
* a bad penny always turns up * bad penny * eightpenny nail * fourpenny nail * * pence * penniless * penny ante * penny arcade * penny dreadful * penny-farthing * penny for one's thoughts * penny pincher * penny wedding * penny whistle * pretty penny * sixpenny nail * tenpenny nail * watch the penniesVerb
- Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.