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Twa penyis, Twapens, Twopence, Tuppens, Tippence, n. (pl.). Also: twa pennyes, tway-pennies, tuo pennies, -pence, tu pens, tuppence, tippens. Attrib. twa penny, -ie, tua pennie, two pen(n)y, tuo penny. Abbrev. twa d. [Late ME and e.m.E. to-pens (c1450), two pens (1477), tuppens (1541).]

1. a. A coin worth two pennies. b. Money to the value of two pennies. c. fig. Indicating a very small amount or something worth very little.The Burgh Laws quot. is perhaps more likely the erron. repetition of twa.a., b. 1661 Ray Remains 209.]
[Their money they reckon after the French manner. A bodel (which is the sixth part of our penny) they [sc. the Scots] call tway-pennies, that is with them two-pence 14.. Burgh Laws c. 28 (B).
The tane sal gyfe to the aldyrman i d. for the entre and the tuthir i d. for the issche And gyf thai hafe changit betwene thaim twa twa penyis 1589–1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 47b.
The twapens of the croune comes to with my awne and all to liii s. 6 d. 1641 Acts V 421/1.
Chickenes, henes and capones … might sell at tuo pence [(1817) 510/1, tuppens] a groat … they might sell … the dearest for a tuopence [(1817) 510/1, tippens] 1641 Acts V (1817) 425/1.
For everie kow that came to the … mercat to be sold, now they ar forcit to pay … tuppence 1666 Lamont Diary 189.
Att his entrie [to the land] he dowbled his few dewtie vpon him, which is only tippence, and tooke a groatt 1691 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II 236.
The cypher of their majesties names on the on syde of the tuo pennies Scotts and on the reverss [etc.] 1679 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 341 (9 Sept.).
Robert McMichell … deponed he gatt sex punds and tu pens of the moneyc. 1635 Edinb. Surgeons 114.
He wald not give tuppens for any privelege thay could afford to him 1661 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I 39.
The moderators of the university of Glasgow … have not bene able to keip any table nor any of them hath as yet gotten a twopence of their stipends ?1672 M. Bruce Sermon in Edinb. Tolbooth 2.
The poor traitour bodie that sells God for a tippence, and their consciences for a livelyhood … are the most miserable bodies in the world

2. attrib. Costing or valued at two pennies. b. specif. Of coins. See also Plak n. for further examples. 1522 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 217.
The twa d. laif weyand x vncis fra this tyme furth 1530 Soc. Ant. II 395.
That all baxteris that baiks court breid sall baik the ta half of the bache twa penny breid the tother half our penny breid 1549 Banff Ann. I 24.
xiii kaiks to be maid of the peck and na twa d. kaiks 1593 Perth Kirk S. in Spottiswoode Misc. II 270.
Every deacon of craft … to cause put ane twopenny candle in their pews every Sunday morning in time of the morning exercise 1622 St. A. Baxter Bks. 85.
That at na tyme heirefter any brother of craft baik ony tua pennie leavis within this ceitie 1632 Edinb. Test. LVI 22b.
Nyn rimb of twa pennie peper … xxv rimb of pennie paiperb. 1588 Reg. Privy C. IV 317.
Fourty of the penneyis weyand ane unce and tuentie of the twa penny plackis weyand ane unce 1677 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II 169.
Ordaines the impression and circumscription of the said tuo penny peices to be the sword and scepter [etc.]

c. Twa penny faith, the name by which Archbishop Hamilton of St. Andrews's tract of 1559, Ane Godlie Exhortatioun, was popularly known, sometimes erroneously applied to Archbishop Hamilton's Catechism (1552) as in the Spotsw. quot. below. 1558-66 Knox (ed. Dickinson) I 139.
That they might give some show to the people that they minded reformation, they sparsed abroad a rumour thereof and set forth somewhat in print, which of the people was called ‘the two-penny faith’ a1578 Pitsc. II 143 n. 1.
They … gart prent thir actis and contitutiounis … and sealled thame … for twa pennyes quhilk eftirward was callit the twa penny faith a1639 Spotsw. Hist. (1677) 92.
In this meeting order was taken for publishing an English Catechism, containing a short explanation of the commandments, belief and Lords Prayer; … This being imprinted, was sold for two pence, and therefore called by the vulgar, The two-peny faith