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penny-pincher

/ˈpɛnɪpɪn(t)ʃə/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈpɛnɪpɪn(t)ʃə/
pennypincher
Syllables
4 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final r is pronounced in US English

penny - pincher -> penny pincher

Myanmar meaning

(infml derog) တစ်ပြားကို နှစ်ပြားခွာသူ။ ကပ်စေးနှဲကော်တရာ။

Full entry

penny /'peni/ n (pl pennies /'peniz/ or Brit pence

/pens/)
၁။ (abbr p ) ဗြိတိသျှသုံး ကြေးပြားပိုက်ဆံ။ ပဲနိ။ (တစ်ပေါင် £ တွင်ပဲနိ p ၁၀၀ ရှိသည်။ ) He had a few pennies in his pocket. ❍ Potatoes are 20 pence a pound. ❍ These pencils cost 40p each.
၂။ (abbr d ) ၁၉၇၁-ခုနှစ် အထိ ဗြိတိန်တွင် သုံးခဲ့သော ကြေးပြားပိုက်ဆံ။ (တစ်သျှီလင်တွင် ၁၂ပဲနိ d ရှိသည်။ )
၃။ (US ) ဆင့်။ ❍ CENT
❏ be two/ten a penny [IDM ]
၁။ အလွန်ပေါသည် (ဈေးချိုသည်)။ Lobsters are two a penny where I come from.
၂။ အလွန်ပေါသည် (ရလွယ်သည်)။ Good jobs aren't exactly ten a penny these days.
❏ in for a penny, in for a pound [IDM ] (Brit saying ) စမိမှတော့ ငုပ်မိသဲတိုင်လုပ်ရမည်။
❏ penny arcade n (US ) = amusement arcade
❏ the penny drops [IDM ] (infml esp Brit ) (မနည်းကြာမှ) နားလည်သဘောပေါက်သွားသည်။ I had to explain the riddle to her several times before the penny dropped.
❏ penny farthing n (Brit ) ရှေ့ဘီးကြီးမား၍ နောက်ဘီး သေးငယ်သော ရှေးခေတ်စက်ဘီးတစ်မျိုး။
❏ a penny for your thoughts [IDM ] (catch- phrase ) ဘာတွေတွေးနေတာလဲ။
❏ penny-pincher n (infml derog ) တစ်ပြားကို နှစ်ပြားခွာသူ။ ကပ်စေးနှဲကော်တရာ။ penny-pinching adj, n [U]
❏ penny whistle n = TIN WHISTLE
❏ turn up like a bad penny [IDM ] (infml ) အလိုက် ကမ်းဆိုးမသိ ပေါ်လာပြန်ပြီ။

More examples
  • A local call only costs a few pence.
  • He had saved up a jarful of old pennies.
  • At secondhand shops you can buy brand name goods for pennies on the dollar.
Synonyms
currency, money, coinage, denomination, change, fifty pence piece, cent, chicken feed, coins, copper, copper penny, dimes, farthing, hill of beans, insignificant value, nickels, pennies, pin money, pocket money, quarters, silver, spending money
Antonyms
bill, dollar
Cross references
currencymoneycoinagedenominationchangefifty pence piececentchicken feedcoinscoppercopper pennydimesfarthinghill of beansinsignificant valuenickelspenniespin moneypocket moneyquarterssilverspending moneybilldollararcadearearen'tbad
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