Have you ever heard of the word guppence?

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During a conversation with my neighbour I used the word guppence (possible misspelling) to refer to a trivial, piddling amount of money and he remarked he hadn’t heard that word since the early 80’s and we both clearly understood what it meant.
The thing is we then googled it, as you do, and Google has no record of it!.
We have since canvassed various people, who have never heard of it and agree can find no trace of it on search engines.
So this word is either of exceptionally local dialect or we’ve got one up on the font of all knowledge that is google?
iabu - never heard of it
ianbu - yes heard of it

not tuppence? Old word for 2 pence.

Tuppence is a word. Never heard of guppence.

Tuppence yes
Guppence no

Never

Never heard of it. Maybe he meant thruppence?

My mum used to say "n'uppence" meaning nothing/ no pence. Pronounced to rhyme with tuppence.

Tuppence = two pence, as in 'Feed the birds, tuppence a bag'.

When I was a young kid, we used the word to mean vulva, which made watching Mary Poppins hilarious.

Think you mean 'pittance'.

A mishearing of tuppence or thruppence??

Tuppance yes. Guppance no.
Where are you both from? Curious if it's a dialect

Or tuppenny ha'penny?

Lots of people say nuppence to indicate an insignificant some. Never heard of guppence though.

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Could it have been comeuppance misheard?

Or thruppence - 3 pennies.

Are you sure don't mean pittance?

heard of tuppece/thruppence but not guppence. Are you sure one/both of you didn't mishear it? i.e. you misheard it years ago, and then when you repeated it to your neighbour he didn't assume you were saying tuppence? It seems quite unusual for only 2 people to remember it unless it is a very very regional thing - could be possible, my gran has a really weird name for a particular animal that nobody else has ever heard of until 1 girl I used to work with, who lives in the same small town, mentioned it.

it's tuppence, it's whatever your your local dialect is that has made you think it starts with a G

Epic fail - didn't register the part about the money when reading... it's been a long day

Just checked the OED and they have tuppence, thruppence, fippence and nuppence but no guppence.

Flumpence?

unless it is a very very regional thing
Yes that's a possibility.

Can't say I've heard of it but I knew what it meant as soon as I read it.

I would guess it's regional, where abouts are you?

Definitely guppence, used in a slightly derogatory way, ie ‘he bet his usual guppence on his hand at poker’ meaning very low stake compared to the general level everyone else was betting at.

I’m beginning to think it must’ve originated in a local pub in deepest darkest Cambridgeshire!

My other thought was "gubbins", meaning stuff, but that doesn't quite fit.

I'm guessing it's regional, I like it