| 单词 | to care a twopenny damn |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(not) to care (or give) a twopenny damn (or hang) a. figurative as a disparaging epithet: Of very little value; paltry, trumpery, trifling, worthless; esp. in (not) to care (or give) a twopenny damn (or hang); also elliptical. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible unworthlyc1230 wretcha1250 seely1297 vilec1320 not worth a cress (kerse)1377 the value of a rushc1380 threadbarec1412 wretched1450 miserable?a1513 rascal1519 prettya1522 not worth a whistlea1529 pegrall1535 plack1539 pelting1540 scald1542 sleeveless1551 baggage1553 paltering1553 piddling1559 twopenny1560 paltry1565 rubbish1565 baggagely1573 pelfish1577 halfpenny1579 palting1579 baubling1581 three-halfpenny1581 pitiful1582 triobolar1585 squirting1589 not worth a lousea1592 hedge1596 cheap1597 peddling1597 dribbling1600 mean1600 rascally1600 three-farthingc1600 draughty1602 dilute1605 copper1609 peltry?a1610 threepenny1613 pelsy1631 pimping1640 triobolary1644 pigwidgeon1647 dustya1649 fiddling1652 puddlinga1653 insignificant1658 piteous1667 snotty1681 scrubbed1688 dishonourable1699 scrub1711 footy1720 fouty1722 rubbishing1731 chuck-farthing1748 rubbishy1753 shabby1753 scrubby1754 poxya1758 rubbishly1777 waff-like1808 trinkety1817 meanish1831 one-eyed1843 twiddling1844 measly1847 poking1850 picayunish1852 vild1853 picayune1856 snide1859 two-cent1859 rummagy1872 faddling1883 finicking1886 slushy1889 twopence halfpenny1890 jerk1893 pissy1922 crappy1928 two-bit1932 piddly1933 chickenshit1934 pissing1937 penny packet1943 farkakte1960 pony1964 gay1978 1560 J. Jewel Let. in J. Jewel & H. Cole True Copies Lett. sig. J.iv To make the people thinke that we reade nothyng els but ii. penny doctoures, as ye cal them. 1643 S. Marshall Copy of Let. 5 Even in a two-peny matter. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber x. 194 Twopenny Criticks must live, as well as Eighteenpenny Authors! 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxi. 555 This woman, with her twopenny gentility. 1897 W. S. Maugham Liza of Lambeth xi. 215 I don't care a twopenny 'ang for all them blokes. 1898 R. Fry Let. 5 Sept. (1972) I. 172 The date for Bissolo's death, for which I don't care just now a tuppenny damn. 1924 D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner Boy in Bush 58 I don't believe she cares a tuppenny for 'em. 1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin ix. 86 It was rich in its lairds, men who..gave not a tuppeny damn..for anybody. < as lemmas |
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