Definition of "sixpenny" [six•pen•ny]

• Valued at, selling for, or worth sixpence. (adjective)
• Of little worth; paltry. (adjective)

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• "And as they came in sixpenny numbers weekly, he had about as many hours to read as other boys spend in play."
• "Some of us play solitaire, some read a "sixpenny", some doze or try to talk in bad"
• "He told his mother about his thinking perhaps the fairies had brought the "sixpenny," and she explained to him that now-a-days, alas! that was hardly likely to be the case, though she seemed quite to understand his fancying it, and did not laugh at him at all."