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What does two-bit mean?

Someone just told me:

"I'm gonna miss your little two-bit comments that were usually right even though you would always say they were wrong"

Can someone tell me what they mean by two-bit?

Thanks!

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  • aida
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    "Two bits" is a slang term for a quarter--25 cents. (At one time an eighth of a dollar, 12 1/2 c,was called a bit, although I don't know whether there a coin of that denomination.) A "two-bit" anything is generally something of little value. In this case, it seems to me that it was you, not someone else, who implied that your comments weren't very important. Evidently the person who said that to you didn't mean to belittle your comments, since they usually turned out to be right. he may have been running the idea of "two-bit" together with "putting in your two cents' worth," which is what you seem to have meant to be doing.

  • 8 years ago

    In a word, cheap. Two bits is old american slang for a quarter (25 cents).

    Cheap, as in off the cuff, not well researched, but correct none the less.

    I would take it as a mild insult if not for the qualifier. Rephrased: I don't

    like your answers but they are right, damnit.

  • Andrea
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    In this instance as in most, two-bit means trivial or small. It references "two-bits", which was an old time term for a quarter, something of a small value.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    In the UK we say "Putting your two pence worth in" Which means having an opinion about something maybe its the same

  • 8 years ago

    Cheap and uncalled for.

    Also, I am the future Mrs. MacFarlane, so you better watch out, missy!

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