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Penny

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈpɛni//

A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.

Etymology

Etymology tree English Pen(elope) Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Penny From Pen(elope) + -y.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

    Max Cross cut a fine figure as the Colonel, Percy Penny was a somewhat unducal Duke, while Edgar McHale gave a particularly good rendering of the Major.

    “Because these racist bigots try to prevent us from standing up for our baby, our boy, he should be afforded the same rights that Kyle Rittenhouse had, Daniel Penny and all the people who have claimed whatever their defense was – he should be afforded the same right,” Alexander said later in the press conference.

  2. 2

    A place name, presumably all taken from the surname: An unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States.

  3. 3

    A place name, presumably all taken from the surname: An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky.

  4. 4

    A place name, presumably all taken from the surname: A small community on the Fraser River in central British Columbia, Canada.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).