- threepenny bits
- Noun. Women's breasts. Rhyming slang on 'tits'. Also thrupenny bits. Cf. 'thrups'.
English slang and colloquialisms. 2014.
threepenny bits
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threepenny bits — /θrɪpəni ˈbɪts/ (say thripuhnee bits) phrase give someone the threepenny bits, Colloquial to arouse dislike, anger, disgust, etc., in someone. {rhyming slang, the shits} …
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threepenny bit — noun a) A pre decimalization United Kingdom coin worth three pence. All day he worked, cutting out pennies and shillings and half crowns and threepenny bits. b) A tit. All these skinny modern chicks with t … Wiktionary
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the tray-bits — n Australian an attack of diarrhoea. A tray bit is a British term for a threepenny piece from the turn of the 20th century (from parl yaree; tray is from the Italian for three, tre). The phrase was adopted in Australia as rhyming slang for the… … Contemporary slang
thrups — Noun. Women s breasts. Shortening of thrupenny bits, rhyming slang on tits . See threepenny bits … English slang and colloquialisms
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