Definitions for penny-a-liner

penny-a-liner pen·ny-a-lin·er

Spelling: [pen-ee-uh-lahy-ner]
IPA: /ˈpɛn i əˈlaɪ nər/

Penny-A-Liner is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 483 anagrams from letters in penny-a-liner (--aeeilnnnpry).

Definitions for penny-a-liner

noun

  1. a hack writer.

Origin of penny-a-liner

1825-35; penny-a-line (of writing) paid for at the rate of a penny per line + -er1

Examples for penny-a-liner

So that a philosopher may say we as well as a monarch or a penny-a-liner.

But this "penny-a-liner," as the Doctor indignantly called him, had attacked him in his tenderest point.

The Emperor has thrown him up, and there's no one outside a penny-a-liner cares two pinches for him or what becomes of him.

The penny-a-liner has long been the butt of a heartless world.

Mr. Hughes speaks, in the style of a penny-a-liner, of Tennyson's "amazing and unparalleled popular influence."

He is a music master, or a penny-a-liner, or a third-rate artist.

Winter, go and bring joy to the heart of some penny-a-liner by giving him that item.

You don't want me to be a penny-a-liner all my life, sweetheart, do you?

From the penny-a-liner to the artist and thinker, the demand for their labour continually increases.

Motherhood to-day is on the lips of every penny-a-liner, every social patchworker and political climber.

Word Value for penny-a-liner
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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