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Definition of Spend a penny
1. Verb. Eliminate urine. "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"
Related verbs: Urinate, Ca-ca, Crap, Defecate, Make, Shit, Stool, Take A Crap, Take A Shit
Specialized synonyms: Wet, Stale
Generic synonyms: Egest, Eliminate, Excrete, Pass
Derivative terms: Micturition, Pee, Pee, Peeing, Piddle, Piss, Piss, Pisser, Pissing, Urination, Urinator, Urine
Definition of Spend a penny
1. Verb. (British euphemistic idiomatic) To use the toilet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spend A Penny
Literary usage of Spend a penny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"to spend a penny on "all of the fun of the Fair." The poses assumed by the Sallies,
Janes, and Susans may not ..."
2. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems by Arthur Henry Bullen (1903)
"... with your good husbandry it will so increase your store, that you may have "
a penny to spend, a penny to lend, and a penny for thy friend. ..."
3. Social England Illustrated: A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts by Andrew Lang (1903)
"... with your good husbandry it will so increase your store, that you may have "a
penny to spend, a penny to lend, and a penny for thy friend. ..."
4. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1867)
"... it is mortal hard to have to spend a penny out of every shilling—not to mention
Sundays— in order to walk about from one part of the town to the other. ..."
5. A Book of Bachelors by Arthur William Fox (1899)
"... be a good husband, and thou wilt soon get a penny to spend, a penny to lend,
and a penny for thy friend; and since we are born, we must live. ..."
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